bare

1. 1

   Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.

   • a bare majority
2. 2

   Naked, uncovered.

   • "I refuse to show myself out of doors in my bare feet," the Centipede said. "I have to get my boots on again first."
3. 3

   Having no supplies.

   • a room bare of furniture
   • The cupboard was bare.
4. 4

   Having no decoration.

   • The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?
5. 5

   Having had what usually covers (something) removed.

   • The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
6. 6

   A lot or lots of.Multicultural-London-EnglishYorkshirenot-comparable

   • It's taking bare time.
7. 7

   With head uncovered; bareheaded.

   • When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. / God is more there, then thou: for thou art there / Onely by his permiſſion.
8. 8

   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?
9. 9

   Mere; without embellishment.figuratively

   • bare essentials; bare necessities
10. 10

    Threadbare, very worn.

    • for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words.

1. 1

   Barely.dialectal

   • The fiend had bare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire.
   • He finally came back to himself and asked why the furor. "Why," Lucy said, "because this is Christmas Eve. We have bare enough time to get ready for the ball, after dinner, as it is."
2. 2

   Very; significantly.Multicultural-London-Englishslang

   • That pissed me off bare.
   • That's bare stupid.
3. 3

   Without a condom.slang

   • While none of the participants had complete confidence in condoms, they continued to use them as a better alternative than “going in bare".
   • It would be fine to have these women bare, without condoms.

1. 1

   The surface, the (bare) skin.

   • In sad good earnest, sir, you have toucht the very bare of naked truth [...]
   • Vancha clasped the bare of my neck and squeezed amiably.
2. 2

   Surface; body; substance.

   • You have touched the very bare of naked truth.
3. 3

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

1. 1

   To uncover; to reveal.figurativelysometimestransitive

   • She bared her teeth at him.
   • The tabloid newspaper promised to bare all.

ant. cover · cover up · hide

1. 1

   simple past of bearform-ofobsoletepast

   • And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon
   • And so I put thee on my shoulder and bare thee back, and here thou art in David's room, and shalt find board and bed with me as long as thou hast mind to