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1. Completely unclothed
   "bare bodies"
   - au naturel, naked, nude
    
2. Lacking in amplitude or quantity
   "a bare livelihood"
   - scanty, spare
    
3. Not having a protective covering
   "a bare blade"
   - unsheathed
    
4. Lacking its natural or customary covering
   "a bare hill"; "bare feet"
    
5. Just barely adequate or within a lower limit
   "a bare majority"
   - marginal
    
6. Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
   "only the bare facts"
   - mere, simple
    
7. Lacking a surface finish such as paint
   "bare wood"
   - unfinished
    
8. Providing no shelter or sustenance
   "bare rocky hills"
   - barren, bleak, desolate, stark
    
9. Having everything extraneous removed including contents
   "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"
   - stripped
    
10. Lacking embellishment or ornamentation
    "a bare hair style"
    - plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented

1. Lay bare
   "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"
    
2. Make public
   "She bared her opinions on welfare"
   - publicize, publicise [Brit], air
    
3. Lay bare
   - denude, denudate, strip

Sounds like: bear

Derived forms: bares, bared, barer, baring, barest

See also: bald, barely, bareness, denudate, denuded, empty, inhospitable, meager [N. Amer], meagerly [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], meagrely [Brit, Cdn], naked, narrow, plain, scrimpy, stingy, unadorned, unclothed, undecorated, undraped, unpainted, unroofed

Type of: clear, expose, tell, uncover

Antonym: covered

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