bare

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   completely unclothed

   bare bodies

2. 2
   adj

   having everything extraneous removed including contents

   the bare walls

3. 3
   adj

   providing no shelter or sustenance

   bare rocky hills

4. 4
   adj

   lacking its natural or customary covering

   a bare hill

5. 5
   adj

   lacking a surface finish such as paint

   bare wood

6. 6
   verb

   to make public

   They will bare the facts after the investigation.

7. 7
   verb

   to lay bare

   The streaker bared it all.

8. 8
   adj

   Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.

   a bare majority

Etymology

From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”). Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch bar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”).