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bare
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation
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adjective
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation
“A plain hair style”
adjective
Lacking in magnitude or quantity
“A bare livelihood”
adjective
Having no clothes on the body
“Bare bodies”
adjective
Having everything extraneous removed including contents
“The bare walls”
adjective
Providing no shelter or sustenance
“Bare rocky hills”
adjective
Lacking its natural or customary covering
“A bare hill”
adjective
Lacking a surface finish such as paint
“Bare wood”
adjective
Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
“Only the bare facts”
adjective
Not having a protective covering
“Unsheathed cables”
adjective
Just barely adequate or within a lower limit
“A bare majority”
verb
Lay bare
“Denude a forest”
verb
Make public
“She aired her opinions on welfare”
verb
Expose to view
“Bare your breasts”
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A plain hair style
Unembellished white walls
Functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete
A bare livelihood
A scanty harvest
A spare diet
Bare bodies
Naked from the waist up
A nude model
The bare walls
The cupboard was bare
Bare rocky hills
Barren lands
The bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
The desolate surface of the moon
A stark landscape
A bare hill
Bare feet
Bare wood
Unfinished furniture
Only the bare facts
Shocked by the mere idea
The simple passage of time was enough
The simple truth
Unsheathed cables
A bare blade
A bare majority
A marginal victory
Denude a forest
She aired her opinions on welfare
Bare your breasts
Bare your feelings
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