Definition of Bare

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Definition of Bare

Bare

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

With head uncovered; bareheaded.

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

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

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.

Threadbare; much worn.

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

Surface; body; substance.

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

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

Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

of Bear

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Bare Quotations

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Winston Churchill

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert Frost

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Thomas Paine

So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.
Shania Twain

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.
Shia LaBeouf

I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.
Megan Fox

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
Alex Grey

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
Bruce Springsteen

Bare Translations

bare in Dutch is onopgesmukt, onbedekt, bloot, naakt
bare in Finnish is alaston
bare in German is nackt
bare in Italian is denudare
bare in Latin is patesco
bare in Portuguese is nu, desencapado
bare in Spanish is desnudo

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