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bare in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. make public
    "She aired her opinions on welfare"
    publicize  publicise  air  bare 
  2. lay bare
    "denude a forest"
    denude  bare  denudate  strip 
  3. lay bare
    "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"
    bare 
adjective
  1. completely unclothed
    "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"
    bare  au naturel  naked  nude 
  2. lacking its natural or customary covering
    "a bare hill"; "bare feet"
    bare 
  3. not having a protective covering
    "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade"
    unsheathed  bare 
  4. having everything extraneous removed including contents
    "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"
    bare  stripped 
  5. 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"
    bare  barren  bleak  desolate  stark 
  6. lacking in amplitude or quantity
    "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
    bare  scanty  spare 
  7. just barely adequate or within a lower limit
    "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"
    bare  marginal 
  8. 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"
    bare  mere  simple 
  9. lacking embellishment or ornamentation
    "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
    plain  bare  spare  unembellished  unornamented 
  10. lacking a surface finish such as paint
    "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"
    bare  unfinished 
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