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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BARE, a. [This word is from opening, separating, stripping.]
1. Naked, without covering; as, the arm is bare; the trees are bare.
2. With the head uncovered, from respect.
3. Plain; simple; unadorned; without the polish of refined manners.
4. Laid open to view; detected; no longer concealed.
5. Poor; destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished.
I have made Esau bare. Jer.xlix.
6. Alone; unaccompanied.
7. Thread-bare; much worn.
8. Wanting clothes; or ill supplied with garments.
Under bare poles, at sea, signifies having no sail set.
It is often followed by of; as, the country is bare of money.
BARE, v.t. [See Bare, adj.]
To strip off the covering; to make naked; as, to bare the breast.
BARE, the old preterit of bear, now bore.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model" [syn: bare, au naturel, naked, nude]
2: lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet" [syn: bare, scanty, spare]
3: not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade" [syn: unsheathed, bare] [ant: sheathed]
4: lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet" [ant: covered]
5: just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory" [syn: bare, marginal]
6: apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" [syn: bare, mere, simple]
7: lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture" [syn: bare, unfinished]
8: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape" [syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark]
9: having everything extraneous removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare" [syn: bare, stripped]
10: lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete" [syn: plain, bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented] v
1: lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"
2: make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare" [syn: publicize, publicise, air, bare]
3: lay bare; "denude a forest" [syn: denude, bare, denudate, strip]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (barer; barest) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bær; akin to Old High German bar naked, Lithuanian basas barefoot Date: before 12th century 1. a. lacking a natural, usual, or appropriate covering b. (1) lacking clothing <bare feet> (2) obsolete bareheaded c. lacking any tool or weapon <opened the box with his bare hands> 2. open to view ; exposed <laying bare their secrets> 3. a. unfurnished or scantily supplied <a bare room> b. destitute <bare of all safeguards> 4. a. having nothing left over or added <the bare necessities of life> b. mere <a bare two hours away> c. devoid of amplification or adornment <the bare facts> 5. obsolete worthless • bareness noun Synonyms: bare, naked, nude, bald, barren mean deprived of naturally or conventionally appropriate covering. bare implies the removal of what is additional, superfluous, ornamental, or dispensable <an apartment with bare walls>. naked suggests absence of protective or ornamental covering but may imply a state of nature, of destitution, or of defenselessness <poor half-naked children>. nude applies especially to the unclothed human figure <a nude model posing for art students>. bald implies actual or seeming absence of natural covering and may suggest a conspicuous bareness <a bald mountain peak>. barren often suggests aridity or impoverishment or sterility <barren plains>. II. transitive verb (bared; baring) Date: before 12th century to make or lay bare ; uncover III. archaic past of bear

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & v. --adj. 1 (esp. of part of the body) unclothed or uncovered (with bare head). 2 without appropriate covering or contents: a (of a tree) leafless. b unfurnished; empty (bare rooms; the cupboard was bare). c (of a floor) uncarpeted. 3 a undisguised (the bare truth). b unadorned (bare facts). 4 (attrib.) a scanty (a bare majority). b mere (bare necessities). --v.tr. 1 uncover, unsheathe (bared his teeth). 2 reveal (bared his soul). Phrases and idioms: bare contract Law a contract lacking a consideration and therefore void unless under seal. bare of without. with one's bare hands without using tools or weapons. Derivatives: bareness n. Etymology: OE bær, barian f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bare Bare, a. [OE. bar, bare, AS. b[ae]r; akin to D. & G. baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, OSlav. bos? barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bh[=a]s to shine ?.] 1. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare. 2. With head uncovered; bareheaded. When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. --Herbert. 3. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed. Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear! --Milton. 4. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. ``Uttering bare truth.'' --Shak. 5. Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. ``A bare treasury.'' --Dryden. 6. Threadbare; much worn. It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words. --Shak. 7. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority. ``The bare necessaries of life.'' --Addison. Nor are men prevailed upon by bare of naked truth. --South. Under bare poles (Naut.), having no sail set.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bare Bare, n. 1. Surface; body; substance. [R.] You have touched the very bare of naked truth. --Marston. 2. (Arch.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bare Bare, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bared(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Baring.] [AS. barian. See Bare, a.] To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bare Bare Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bear Bear (b[^a]r), v. t. [imp. Bore (b[=o]r) (formerly Bare (b[^a]r)); p. p. Born (b[^o]rn), Borne (b[=o]r); p. pr. & vb. n. Bearing.] [OE. beren, AS. beran, beoran, to bear, carry, produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. geb["a]ren, Goth. ba['i]ran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. b["a]ra, Dan. b[ae]re, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. fe`rein, OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. berim I bear, Skr. bh[.r] to bear. [root]92. Cf. Fertile.] 1. To support or sustain; to hold up. 2. To support and remove or carry; to convey. I 'll bear your logs the while. --Shak. 3. To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. [Obs.] Bear them to my house. --Shak. 4. To possess and use, as power; to exercise. Every man should bear rule in his own house. --Esther i. 22. 5. To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. 6. To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. 7. To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor --Dryden. The ancient grudge I bear him. --Shak. 8. To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. --Pope. I cannot bear The murmur of this lake to hear. --Shelley. My punishment is greater than I can bear. --Gen. iv. 13. 9. To gain or win. [Obs.] Some think to bear it by speaking a great word. --Bacon. She was . . . found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge. --Latimer. 10. To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. He shall bear their iniquities. --Is. liii. 11. Somewhat that will bear your charges. --Dryden. 11. To render or give; to bring forward. ``Your testimony bear'' --Dryden. 12. To carry on, or maintain; to have. ``The credit of bearing a part in the conversation.'' --Locke. 13. To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. In all criminal cases the most favorable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear. --Swift. 14. To manage, wield, or direct. ``Thus must thou thy body bear.'' --Shak. Hence: To behave; to conduct. Hath he borne himself penitently in prison ? --Shak. 15. To afford; to be to; to supply with. His faithful dog shall bear him company. --Pope. 16. To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore. --Dryden. Note: In the passive form of this verb, the best modern usage restricts the past participle born to the sense of brought forth, while borne is used in the other senses of the word. In the active form, borne alone is used as the past participle. To bear down. (a) To force into a lower place; to carry down; to depress or sink. ``His nose, . . . large as were the others, bore them down into insignificance.'' --Marryat. (b) To overthrow or crush by force; as, to bear down an enemy. To bear a hand. (a) To help; to give assistance. (b) (Naut.) To make haste; to be quick. To bear in hand, to keep (one) up in expectation, usually by promises never to be realized; to amuse by false pretenses; to delude. [Obs.] ``How you were borne in hand, how crossed.'' --Shak. To bear in mind, to remember. To bear off. (a) To restrain; to keep from approach. (b) (Naut.) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything; as, to bear off a blow; to bear off a boat. (c) To gain; to carry off, as a prize. To bear one hard, to owe one a grudge. [Obs.] ``C[ae]sar doth bear me hard.'' --Shak. To bear out. (a) To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last. ``Company only can bear a man out in an ill thing.'' --South. (b) To corroborate; to confirm. To bear up, to support; to keep from falling or sinking. ``Religious hope bears up the mind under sufferings.'' --Addison. Syn: To uphold; sustain; maintain; support; undergo; suffer; endure; tolerate; carry; convey; transport; waft.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(barer, barest, bares, baring, bared) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If a part of your body is bare, it is not covered by any clothing. She was wearing only a thin robe over a flimsy nightdress, and her feet were bare... She had bare arms and a bare neck. ADJ 2. A bare surface is not covered or decorated with anything. They would have liked bare wooden floors throughout the house. ADJ: usu ADJ n 3. If a tree or a branch is bare, it has no leaves on it. ...an old, twisted tree, its bark shaggy, many of its limbs brittle and bare. ADJ 4. If a room, cupboard, or shelf is bare, it is empty. His fridge was bare apart from three very withered tomatoes... He led me through to a bare, draughty interviewing room. ADJ 5. An area of ground that is bare has no plants growing on it. That's probably the most bare, bleak, barren and inhospitable island I've ever seen. ADJ 6. If someone gives you the bare facts or the barest details of something, they tell you only the most basic and important things. Newspaper reporters were given nothing but the bare facts by the Superintendent in charge of the investigation. = plain ADJ: det ADJ 7. If you talk about the bare minimum or the bare essentials, you mean the very least that is necessary. The army would try to hold the western desert with a bare minimum of forces... These are the bare essentials you'll need to dress your baby during the first few months. = absolute ADJ: det ADJ 8. Bare is used in front of an amount to emphasize how small it is. Sales are growing for premium wines, but at a bare 2 percent a year. = mere ADJ: a ADJ amount [emphasis] 9. If you bare something, you uncover it and show it. (WRITTEN) Walsh bared his teeth in a grin... VERB: V n 10. bare bones: see bone 11. If someone does something with their bare hands, they do it without using any weapons or tools. Police believe the killer punched her to death with his bare hands... Rescuers were using their bare hands to reach the trapped miners. PHRASE: PHR after v 12. If you lay something bare, you uncover it completely so that it can then be seen. The clearing out of disused workshops laid bare thousands of Italianate glazed tiles. = expose PHRASE: V inflects 13. If you lay bare something or someone, you reveal or expose them. No one wants to expose themselves, lay their feelings bare. PHRASE: V inflects

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Naked, nude, denuded, uncovered, unclothed, undressed, exposed, unprotected, unsheltered, unshielded, detected. 2. Simple, sheer, mere, alone. 3. Unadorned, bald, undecorated, unfurnished, meagre. 4. Poor, destitute, indigent, ill-supplied, empty. II. v. a. Strip, uncover, make bare. See preceding adjective.

Moby Thesaurus

Spartan, absolute, and, ascetic, austere, bald, bankrupt, bare-ass, bared, barren, basic, bland, blank, bleached, bleak, break the seal, bring to light, candid, characterless, chaste, clarified, clear, cleared, cold, common, commonplace, deep-worn, defoliate, defoliated, denudate, denude, denuded, deobstruct, depleted, deprive, desert, desolate, destitute, develop, devoid, direct, disclose, disclosed, discover, dismantle, dismask, disrobe, distilled, divest, divested, divulge, dog-eared, draw the veil, dried-up, dry, dull, elementary, emptied, empty, essential, exhausted, exhibit, expose, exposed, featureless, fleece, frank, free, fundamental, gymnosophical, hairless, hard, hatless, hollow, homely, homespun, homogeneous, impart, in native buff, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, inane, indivisible, insipid, irreducible, lay bare, lay open, lean, let daylight in, let out, literal, manifest, matter-of-fact, mere, minimal, monolithic, naked, natural, naturistic, neat, nude, nudist, null, null and void, of a piece, open, open as day, open to all, open up, out-and-out, overt, patefy, peeled, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, pluck, primal, primary, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, purified, raise the curtain, raw, rectified, remove, reveal, revealed, rustic, scant, scanty, sere, severe, shear, sheer, shelfworn, shopworn, shorn, show, show up, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, single, sober, spare, stark, stark-naked, straight, straightforward, strip, strip bare, stripped, tell, threadbare, timeworn, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unalloyed, unarrayed, unattired, unblended, unblock, uncase, unclad, unclassified, unclench, uncloak, unclog, unclogged, unclosed, unclothed, unclutch, uncluttered, uncombined, uncomplicated, uncompounded, unconcealed, uncork, uncorrupted, uncover, uncovered, uncurtain, undecked, undecorated, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiluted, undisguised, undo, undrape, undress, undressed, unembellished, unenhanced, unfilled, unfold, unfortified, unfoul, unfurbished, unfurl, ungarnished, unhidden, uniform, unimaginative, unkennel, unlatch, unleavened, unlock, unmask, unmingled, unmixed, unobstructed, unornamented, unpack, unplug, unpoetical, unrelieved, unrestricted, unrobed, unroll, unscreen, unseal, unsheathe, unshod, unshroud, unshut, unsophisticated, unstop, unstopped, unsupplied, untinged, untrimmed, unvarnished, unveil, unwrap, vacant, vacuous, void, well-worn, white, wide-open, with nothing inside, with nothing on, without a stitch, without content, worn, worn ragged, worn to rags, worn to threads, worn-down