noun
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(‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin.
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Surface; body; substance.
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That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
adjective
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Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
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a bare majority
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Naked, uncovered.
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I do wonder why keeping my little breasts bare can be lewd even as none tells my brother anything for being bare-chested.
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Having no supplies.
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The cupboard was bare.
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Having no decoration.
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The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?
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Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
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The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
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(Toronto) A lot or lots of.
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It's bare money to get in the club each time, man.
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With head uncovered; bareheaded.
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Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
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Mere; without embellishment.
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Threadbare, very worn.
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Not insured.
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Very; significantly.
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It's taking bare time.
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Barely.
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Without a condom.
Examples of bare in a Sentence
She relaxed and pressed her bare legs into the sand in front of her.
Why don't you curl up on the couch and get your bare feet off this cold floor?
While saying this he never removed his smiling eyes from her face, her neck, and her bare arms.
Her bare body was ice cold.
How many times have I told you not to leave the house at night in your bare feet?
She rose unsteadily and brushed some of the glass away with her bare foot, near tears.
Dean half-felt his way across the parking lot in his bare feet, cursing the pebbles and splashing through ankle-deep puddles at curbside before stumbling into the absolute darkness of the beach-side path.
It cushioned her bare feet the way she imagined a cloud might.
The house, with its bare, unplastered log walls, was not overclean--it did not seem that those living in it aimed at keeping it spotless--but neither was it noticeably neglected.
What did his bare back look like?
At intervals the trees lost their icy covering, and the bulrushes and underbrush were bare; but the lake lay frozen and hard beneath the sun.
The sound of bare feet splashing through the mud was heard in the darkness, and the drummer boy came to the door.
Suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing back her hair, kissed him full on the lips.
The walls were bare, the curtains drawn even during daylight, and the heavy wooden furniture solid and worn.
His bare back had lost muscle tone while he was in the hospital, but he wasn't as thin as she had first thought.
Finally Katie could bare the silence no longer.
On the bare wooden floor in the dusty attic, Leo taps.
The white dress scarcely touched the tops of her bare feet and fitted her perfectly.
The shed at Hugson's Siding was bare save for an old wooden bench, and did not look very inviting.
I nearly died wen i saw this guys bare bum!
Your house has been laid bare, how is your heart.. ... .
She sang something mournfully, addressing the queen, but the king waved his arm severely, and men and women with bare legs came in from both sides and began dancing all together.
The concrete patio felt cool on her bare feet.
Have stripped bare the us federal of e-mail for.
The princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered a reply unnecessary.
She didn't try to hide them this time; Darkyn had stripped her bare.
Her mouth felt suddenly dry and goose bumps sprang up all over her bare arms.
It is situated in a bare and rocky country near the western shore of lake Runn.
A remarkable feature is the bare statement of a number of very close approximations to the square roots of numbers which are not complete squares.
We feel that we have here no skilful composition, but a bare transcript of what occurred.
Next, we have a narrative of the Temptation, of which St Mark had but recorded the bare fact.
It is part of Hegel's plan to remedy this one-sided character of thought, by laying bare the gradations of ideas.
The north-east corner of the lake is flat and bare.
A bare toleration had been granted in 1720.
The feeling of his bare body against hers terrified her; he was strong enough to do what Donovan had not!
I was called everything under the sun during these vigils and it was there that I was shown bare backsides by some Neanderthals.
It is glorious to behold this ribbon of water sparkling in the sun, the bare face of the pond full of glee and youth, as if it spoke the joy of the fishes within it, and of the sands on its shore.
His feet were bare.
Infatuated by the carpet, she kept her feet bare.
The ground below is perfectly bare, and there is no water.
The houses, built of stone and whitewashed, are square, substantial, flat-topped buildings, presenting to the street bare walls, with a few slits protected by iron gratings in place of windows.
The first antenna employed consisted of 50 bare copper wires 200 ft.
In suburban and rural districts subscribers are usually served by means of bare wires erected upon wooden or iron poles.
Eastward from this the ranges of low bare hills called the Murgie of Gravina and Altamura gradually sink into the still more moderate level of those which constitute the peninsular tract between Brindisi and Taranto as far as the Cape of Sta Maria di Leuca, the south-east extremity of Italy.
Its waters have been in great part carried off by an artificial channel, and more than half its surface laid bare.
They fought for bare existence, for primacy in commerce, for the command of seaports, for the keys of mountain passes, for rivers, roads and all the avenues of wealth and plenty.
Towards Prince Bjsmarck Robilant maintained an attitude of dignified independence, and as, in the spring of 1886, the moment for the renewal of the triple alliance drew near, he profited by the development of the Bulgarian crisis and the threatened Franco-Russian understanding to secure from the central powers something more than the bare territorial guarantee of the original treaty.
But here he used the term " real " somewhat unguardedly, for in his Defence he asserts a real presence, but defines it as exclusively a spiritual presence; and he repudiates the idea that the bread and wine were " bare tokens."
Passing now to the later schoolmen, a bare mention must be made of Thomas Aquinas, who elaborately argues for the absolute creation of the world out of nothing, and of Albertus Magnus, who reasons against the Aristotelian idea of the past eternity of the world.
The gentle lemurs (Hapalemur) have a rounder head, with smaller ears and a shorter muzzle, and also a bare patch covered with spines on the fore-arm.