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Bare

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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Similar meaning 26

Bald 84% connected

Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.

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Bald 84% connected

Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.

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Denudate 84% connected

To denude.

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Denudate 84% connected

To denude.

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Empty 84% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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Empty 84% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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Inhospitable 84% connected

Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.

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Inhospitable 84% connected

Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.

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Meager 84% connected

Alt. of Meagre

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Meager 84% connected

Alt. of Meagre

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Meagerly 84% connected

Alt. of Meagrely

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Meagerly 84% connected

Alt. of Meagrely

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Meagre 84% connected

Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.

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Meagre 84% connected

Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.

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Naked 84% connected

Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

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Naked 84% connected

Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

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Narrow 84% connected

Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.

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Narrow 84% connected

Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.

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Plain 84% connected

To lament; to bewail; to complain.

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Plain 84% connected

To lament; to bewail; to complain.

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Stingy 84% connected

Stinging; able to sting.

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Stingy 84% connected

Stinging; able to sting.

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Unclothed 84% connected

Divested or stripped of clothing.

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Unclothed 84% connected

Divested or stripped of clothing.

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Unroofed 84% connected

Stripped of a roof, or similar covering.

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Unroofed 84% connected

Stripped of a roof, or similar covering.

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Manner of action 17

Air 76% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Beam 76% connected

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

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Broadcast 76% connected

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

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Bulletin 76% connected

A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority f…

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Circulate 76% connected

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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Defoliate 76% connected

Alt. of Defoliated

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Diffuse 76% connected

To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to di…

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Disperse 76% connected

To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

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Disseminate 76% connected

To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and err…

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Distribute 76% connected

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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Issue 76% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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Propagate 76% connected

To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

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Publish 76% connected

To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an ed…

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Send 76% connected

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

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Spread 76% connected

of Spread

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Transmit 76% connected

To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Expose 76% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Uncover 76% connected

To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.

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Derivationally related 6

Bareness 74% connected

The state of being bare.

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Bareness 74% connected

The state of being bare.

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Plainness 74% connected

The quality or state of being plain.

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Plainness 74% connected

The quality or state of being plain.

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Synonym 18

Air 92% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Barren 92% connected

Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

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Bleak 92% connected

Without color; pale; pallid.

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Denudate 92% connected

To denude.

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Denude 92% connected

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.

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Desolate 92% connected

Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.

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Marginal 92% connected

Of or pertaining to a margin.

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Mere 92% connected

A pool or lake.

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Naked 92% connected

Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

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Nude 92% connected

Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.

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Plain 92% connected

To lament; to bewail; to complain.

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Scanty 92% connected

Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.

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Simple 92% connected

Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance;…

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Spare 92% connected

To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.

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Stark 92% connected

Stiff; rigid.

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Strip 92% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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Stripped 92% connected

of Strip

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Unfinished 92% connected

Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished…

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