bare

adjective11

1. •
   with no clothes, shoes or anything else on, so the skin shows

   • "I refuse to show myself out of doors in my bare feet," the Centipede said. "I have to get my boots on again first." — 1961
2. •
   Having had what usually covers (something) removed.

   • The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
3. •
   With head uncovered; bareheaded.

   • When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. / God is more there, then thou: for thou art there / Onely by his permission. — 1633
4. •
   Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.

   • Bare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear? — 1671
5. •
   Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.

   • Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of life, but traffic gives us a great variety of what is useful — 1711
6. •
   (figurative) Mere; without embellishment.

   • Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. — 1848
7. •
   Having no supplies.

   • The cupboard was bare.
8. •
   Having no decoration.

   • The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?
9. •
   (slang) A lot or lots of.

   • It's taking bare time.
10. •
    Threadbare, very worn.

    • for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words. — 1590
11. •
    Not insured.

    • Before the company was formed, the firm went bare for about three months in 1985, but it now has prior acts coverage for that time. — 1987

adverb3

1. •
   (slang) Very; significantly.

   • That pissed me off bare.
   • That's bare stupid.
2. •
   (slang) Without a condom.

   • While none of the participants had complete confidence in condoms, they continued to use them as a better alternative than “going in bare". — 2000
3. •
   (dialect) Barely.

   • The fiend had bare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire. — 1902

noun3

1. •
   The surface, the (bare) skin.

   • In sad good earnest, sir, you have toucht the very bare of naked truth [...] — 1599
2. •
   Surface; body; substance.

   • You have touched the very bare of naked truth. — 1599
3. •
   That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

verb1

1. •
   To uncover; to reveal.

   • She bared her teeth at him.
   • The tabloid newspaper promised to bare all.

noun[plural only]1

1. •
   An indigenous people of northwest Brazil and Venezuela.