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