Verb
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lay bare
"denude a forest"
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make public
"She aired her opinions on welfare"
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lay bare
"bare your breasts"
"bare your feelings"
Adjective
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lacking embellishment or ornamentation
"a plain hair style"
"unembellished white walls"
"functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
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having everything extraneous removed including contents
"the bare walls"
"the cupboard was bare"
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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"
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lacking a surface finish such as paint
"bare wood"
"unfinished furniture"
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apart from anything else
without additions or modifications
"only the bare facts"
"shocked by the mere idea"
"the simple passage of time was enough"
"the simple truth"
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just barely adequate or within a lower limit
"a bare majority"
"a marginal victory"
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lacking its natural or customary covering
"a bare hill"
"bare feet"
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not having a protective covering
"unsheathed cables"
"a bare blade"
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lacking in amplitude or quantity
"a bare livelihood"
"a scanty harvest"
"a spare diet"
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completely unclothed
"bare bodies"
"naked from the waist up"
"a nude model"
- au naturel