Bare

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1. Adjective

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

2. Adjective

With head uncovered; bareheaded.

3. Adjective

Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.

4. Adjective

Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.

5. Adjective

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.

6. Adjective

Threadbare; much worn.

7. Adjective

Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.

8. Noun

Surface; body; substance.

9. Noun

That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

10. Adjective

To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

11. Unclassified

Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

12. Unclassified

of Bear

13. Adjective

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"
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