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bare is an adjective and verb meaning "completely unclothed". It carries 13 recorded senses.
completely unclothed
“bare bodies”
“naked from the waist up”
“a nude model”
lacking a surface finish such as paint
“bare wood”
“unfinished furniture”
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”
lacking embellishment or ornamentation
“a plain hair style”
“unembellished white walls”
“functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bare come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.