bareadj.adv.n.
/bɛː/, U.S. /bɛ(ə)r/ A. adj.
I. Without covering.
1. † c. bare eye n. cf. ‘naked eye.’ Obsolete.
a. Of the body or its parts: Unclothed, naked, nude.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective]
nakedOE
bareOE
start nakedc1225
nakec1300
unarrayedc1380
clothelessc1386
mother-nakedc1390
stark nakedc1390
bareda1400
naked as a needlec1400
unattiredc1400
uncladc1400
uncoveredc1400
loose1423
unclothedc1440
belly-nakeda1500
naked as one's nail1563
unabuilyeit1568
sindonlessc1595
leathern1596
disarrayed1611
undressed1613
debaredc1620
unapparelled1622
unaccoutred?1750
stark1762
disrobed1794
ungarmented1798
undraped1814
au naturel1828
nude1830
skyclad1832
garbless1838
kitless1846
spar-naked1849
raimentless1852
undoffed1854
togless1857
garmentless1866
naked as a robin1866
clothesless1868
sky clothed1878
nakedized1885
altogether1896
buck naked1913
raw1916
bollock naked1922
starkers1923
starko1923
stitchless1927
naked as a jaybird1931
bollock1950
rollock naked1962
nekkid1977
kit-off1992
OE Genesis 783 Bare hie gesawon heora lichaman.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 514 Manie in hor bare fless hom late croici vaste.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 900 On hir bare knees adown they falle.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xxx. 12269 Founden bare in his bed.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 249 Lay bare your bosome. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xlvii. 2 Make bare the legge, vncouer the thigh. View more context for this quotation
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. i. 2 He filled my Hat..and then put it upon my bare Head.
1853 Arab. Nights (Rtldg.) 229 Robbers, who stripped him as bare as my hand.
b. Stripped to the shirt or other under-garment; cf. naked adj. 1a, Greek γυμνός.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing underwear
bare1330
naked1490
1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 161 Bare in serke and breke Isaac oway fled.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xiv. 268 I hear that him to whom you gave your love, you drove out to the cold, bidding him go and fight in his bare shirt.
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > [noun]
eyeeOE
eilthirlc1225
windowc1230
naked eye1651
bare eye1664
naked sight1698
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 18 Whose whole bulk to the bare eye is quite indiscernable.
?1790 J. Imison School of Arts (ed. 2) 263 Holds his finger..between his bare eye and an object.
2. With the head uncovered. archaic = bare-headed adj. and adv.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [adjective] > bareheaded or baring the head
barec1405
bare-headeda1533
capping1602
unbonneted1608
barehead1622
cap-in-hand1889
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 683 Discheuelee, saue his cappe, he rood al bare.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ix. 43 How many then should couer that stand bare ? View more context for this quotation
1633 G. Herbert Church Porch lxviii When once thy foot enters the church, be bare.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xvi. 594 They all stood bare, whilst the Heraulds proclaim'd the King.
3. figurative. Unconcealed, undisguised, open to view.
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society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > openness or unconcealedness > [adjective]
openlyeOE
underna900
openeOE
utterly12..
unhida1300
perta1325
apert1330
nakeda1382
public1394
patenta1398
foreign?c1400
overtc1400
unrecovered1433
publicalc1450
open-visageda1513
bare1526
uncloaked1539
subject1556
uncovered1577
unmasked1590
facely1593
undisguised1598
female1602
unveiled1606
unshrouded1610
barefaceda1616
disclouded1615
unhiddena1616
broad-faced1643
with full miena1657
undissembled1671
frank1752
bald-faced1761
unconfidential1772
ostensible1782
unglossed1802
undisguising1813
unvisored1827
unconcealed1839
disprivacied1848
disguiseless1850
bald1854
unobscured1879
visible1885
open door1898
above ground1976
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. v. 46 Ah ne & bær-suinnigo ðis doas?
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. iv. 13 All thynges are naked and bare unto the eyes off hym.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 902 Bare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear? View more context for this quotation
1781 W. Cowper Charity 494 He hides behind a magisterial air His own offences, and strips others bare.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xxviii. 112 Bare to the rude world's withering view.
4. Of natural objects, as earth, heavens, trees: Without such covering as they have at other times, e.g. without vegetation, clouds, bark, foliage, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > without natural or usual covering
barec885
nakedeOE
uncovered1565
bald-pated1606
bald-pate1683
c885 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxiv. §10 Sumna on cluðum, sumne on barum sondum.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 181 Ðurh ane godliese wude in-to ane bare felde.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 1321 Braunches..o bark al bare.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xxxv. f. 49 They wyll eate the grounde moost barest.
1611 Bible (King James) Joel i. 7 He hath..barked my figge tree: he hath made it cleane bare . View more context for this quotation
1720 London Gaz. No. 5827/1 The Country between the two Armies being eaten bare.
1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 148 The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare . View more context for this quotation
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. ii. 27 Hills which are now bare were then covered with forest.
5. Of persons and animals: Stripped of a natural covering; deprived of hair, wool, flesh, etc.; bald.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare
bared1382
bare1387
exutec1430
stark naked?1594
stripped1594
nudified1653
denudated1672
denuded1813
denudate1866
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. I. 115 Golgotha is to menynge a baar scolle.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5165 His heued it was all bar for eild.
?a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Sheep & Dog l. 1257 in Poems (1981) 51 The scheip..Naikit and bair syne to the feild couth pas.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. i. 35 The bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer. View more context for this quotation
1783–94 W. Blake Chimney-sweep 7 When your head's bare, You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.
6.
a. Wanting appropriate covering, equipment, or array; unfurnished, uncovered.
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the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > provided or supplied with something > equipped or fitted out > not
barec1200
unweaponedc1200
ungraithedc1290
unwarnishedc1425
unfurnished1549
ungeared1568
unappointed1579
unarmed1693
unfitted1708
unequipped1895
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 139 Bare eorð to bedde, and hard ston to bolstre.
c1420 Sir Amadace xiv For his mete he wold not spare, Burdes in the halle were neuyr bare.
c1600 Rob. Hood (Ritson) xvi. 44 When others cast in their bated hooks, The bare lines into the sea cast he.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 307 It is good to vse your horsse to backing, both sadled and bare.
1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 254 Fain to lie upon the bare boards.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 15 Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair.
b. Without armour or weapons, unarmed. ? Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective] > not
weaponlessa1000
unweaponedc1200
barec1275
unarmed1297
nakedc1300
plaina1400
disarmedc1425
unboden1456
unbarbed1565
unbarded1598
unmunitioned1626
armlessa1640
munitionless1871
barehanded1874
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8658 Þa Irisce weoren bare.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 277 If þou craue batayl bare, Here fayleȝ þou not to fyȝt.
1549 J. Cheke Hurt of Sedicion sig. C6 Ye..hewed hym bare, whom ye coulde not hurt armed.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 174 Men doe their broken weapons rather vse, Then their bare hands. View more context for this quotation
c. Of cloth: Napless, threadbare. Of weapons: Unsheathed. bare poles in Nautical use: masts with no sails set; also bare-poled adj., having bare poles; also transferred, of trees lacking leaves or branches.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > [adjective] > drawn
nakedeOE
drawnc1175
streitc1386
unscauberkedc1430
unsheathedc1430
bare1483
unscabbarded1562
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > worn bare > threadbare
threadbare1362
bare1483
bare (also) worn to the thread1483
peeled?a1513
sere1523
pilled1548
napless1596
thready1910
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > with sails set [phrase] > with no sails set
under bare poles1697
bare poles1762
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adjective] > with sails set > not
bare-poled1851
the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [adjective] > of or having branch(es) > without leaves or branches
armless1596
branchless1611
unbranched1731
limbless1770
boughless1839
boughed1852
bare-poled1864
staggy1933
rownsepyked1937
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 262 With a threedbare cope, as is a poure scoler.]
1483 Act 1 Rich. III viii. Pream. Course Clothes..bare of Threde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 44 Their bare Liueries. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. i. 2 Weare thy good Rapier bare . View more context for this quotation
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) A cloth is said to be bare or naked, when the nap is too short.
1762 Let. 11 Nov. in Ann. Reg. 1762 (1787) 117/2 The ship sprung a leak, and we were obliged to lie to under bare poles.
1774 N. Cresswell Jrnl. 5 Aug. (1925) 31 To furl the F.S. [i.e. fore-sail] and scud under bare pole.
1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 130 Drove 24 hours under bare poles.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxix. 555 The Pequod..bare-poled was left to fight a Typhoon.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Charge Light Brigade iii, in Maud & Other Poems 152 Flash'd all their sabres bare.
1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. 33 Open forests of bare-poled trees.
II. Stripped of surroundings, contents, property.† 7. Defenceless, unprotected, deserted. Obsolete.† 8. Laid waste, desolate. Obsolete.b.c1220 Bestiary 144 in Old Eng. Misc. 5 Ðanne ðe neddre is..bare of his brest atter.c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1641 Of blisse y am al bare.1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall ii. 26 We are bare in historicall particulars.1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. vii. 466 Old Father Margraf..does always keep us frightfully bare in money.1883 Church Times 9 Nov. 813/2 Lutheranism is more bare of the attribute of saintliness than any other creed held by a large body of Christians.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > exposed to danger > vulnerable > unprotected
nakedeOE
openeOE
yemelesc897
bare1297
unarmed1297
berghlessa1325
subjectc1384
undefensablec1412
unfencible1513
defenceless1532
wide open?1544
undefended1564
unfended1576
indefensive1586
undefensive1587
fenceless1594
unprotected1597
undefensible1616
unscreened1648
defendless1738
uncovereda1795
screenless1837
undefendable1938
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 388 Þe wule hii were in Normandye & Engelond so bare.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy iv. 1320 So bare leuyt, Vmfoldyng with his fos þat he ne fle might.
1551 King Edward VI in J. G. Nichols Literary Remains Edward VI (1858) II. 353 If he found a bare company..to set upon them.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > devastating > devastated
barec1305
waste1338
desolatea1382
yheryȝeda1440
wastedc1440
ruined1600
vastate1616
devasted1632
ravaged1657
divast1677
populated1747
devastated1813
c1305 St. Edm. King 20 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 87 Robbede al þat he fond & makede þane toun bar.
c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 62 So desolate stode Thebes and so bare.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. M2v Like a late sack't Iland..Bare and vnpeopled.
1645 J. Milton Sonnet viii, in Poems 50 To save th' Athenian Walls from ruine bare.
9. Without possessions, destitute, indigent, needy; scantily furnished. Const. of, rarely in: see b.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor
havelessOE
unrichOE
waedlec1000
armOE
nakedOE
helplessc1175
wantsomec1175
poora1200
barec1220
needfula1225
misease?c1225
unwealya1300
needyc1325
feeblec1330
poorful1372
mischievousc1390
miseasedc1390
indigentc1400
meanc1400
naughtyc1400
succourless1412
unwealthyc1412
behove1413
misterousa1425
misterfulc1480
miserablec1485
beggarly1545
starved1563
threadbare1577
penurious1590
fortuneless1596
wealthless1605
wantful1607
necessitous1611
inopulent1613
titheless1615
egene1631
starveling1638
necessitated1646
inopious1656
parsimonious1782
unopulent1782
lacking1805
bushed1819
obolary1820
ill-to-do1853
down at heel1856
po'1866
needsome1870
down-at-heeled1884
rocky1921
the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > ill-provided with something
barec1220
leana1340
needya1425
matterless1483
deficious1541
scarce of?1541
scanta1595
deficienta1616
strait1662
short of1697
shy1895
low on1904
short on1922
light1936
the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > poorly supplied or equipped
barec1220
poora1250
leana1340
nakedc1380
indigent1426
wanting1592
slender1722
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1708 Þat ich bare [c1300 Otho bar] sitte wunnen biræued.
c1280 Sarmun 44 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 5 He nel noȝt leue his eir al bare.
c1480 Childe of Bristowe 554 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 131 First was riche and sitthen bare.
?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Dv As bare as Job.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iii. xi. 162 Bare I was born, and bare I remain.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xxii. 89 Yet mercy hath not left us bare.
10. Destitute or defective in various other respects:† b. Poor in quality, paltry, worthless. Obsolete.† d. Simple, without luxury; unpolished, rude.† e. bare wind in Nautical use: one too much ahead to fill the sails well; scant. Obsolete.
a. Without contents, empty.
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the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > empty
idlec825
toomOE
lankc1000
emptyOE
leera1250
i-lerc1275
vain1382
void1390
bare1399
vacanta1400
i-voidec1415
hollow1600
vake1600
clear1607
inane1662
blank1748
viduous1855
unchargeda1861
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iv. 21 No þing y-lafte but the bare baggis.
1692 J. Dryden Ded. to Cleomenes in Wks. (1996) XVI. 75 A bare treasury.
1885 N.E.D. at Bare Nursery Rime Mother Hubbard, When she got there the cupboard was bare.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > [adjective]
forcouthc888
goodlesseOE
undoughtya1225
voidc1380
bare1399
stark naught1528
worthilessa1542
queer1567
worthless1573
hilding1577
baggage1580
arrant1581
offal1588
lorel1590
losel1601
ragamuffin1602
loselled1606
loselly1611
valuelessa1616
ragamuffa1626
good-for-nothing1706
ne'er-do-well1773
rotten1813
neat1824
scamping1832
good-for-naught1835
no good1838
scampish1847
ne'er-do-wellish1890
no good1904
upter1919
never-do-well1933
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iv. 70 So blynde and so ballid and bare was þe reson.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy vi. 2502 Soche bargens are bytter, þat hafe a bare end.
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. C What bare excuses mak'st thou to be gon? View more context for this quotation
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 13 Such poore, such bare ..attempts. View more context for this quotation
c. Without literary or artistic effect; bald, meagre, unadorned.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adjective]
nakedOE
simplea1382
meanc1450
rural1488
misorned1512
inornate?1518
barec1540
broad1588
bald1589
kersey1598
russet1598
unvarnisheda1616
unembellished1630
illaborate1631
severe1665
renable1674
small1678
unadorned1692
inelaborate1747
unlarded1748
chaste1753
uncoloured1845
minimalist1929
spare1965
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > bald
barrena1387
baldc1390
meagre1539
barec1540
starved1604
poor1842
poverty-stricken1865
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy Prol. 74 Cornelius translated it..but he brought it so breff, and so bare leuyt, þat no lede might have likyng to loke þerappon.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 84 In long resting the harmonie seemeth bare.
1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne 248 The bare line of general narration is so happily ornamented.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > simplicity > [adjective]
plainc1330
simplea1382
neat1453
natural1553
austere1581
bare1583
unintricated1649
severe1665
clever1674
light1740
ungaudy1795
unassuminga1807
inartificial1823
quiet1838
unpretentious1838
unabstract1840
uninvolved1853
penny-plain1854
simplex munditiis1874
unstagy1882
clinical1932
shibui1947
understated1957
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. K5 Better it is to haue bare feeding than none at all.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xii. 175 Yet was their manner then but bare and playne.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 76 This bare Northren people [sc. the Tartars].
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind as means of propulsion > too much ahead
bare wind1682
back-wind1909
1682 London Gaz. No. 1744/4 This morning sailed the whole Fleet..with a bare Wind at N.W. and by N.
1691 London Gaz. No. 2671/4 Having but a bare Wind, and little of it.
1694 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 320 The whole fleet was out of sight, with a bare wind at North.
III. Without anything of the nature of addition.† 12. From the idea of completeness in itself; Sheer, absolute, very, actual. Obsolete.
11. Without addition, mere, simple; —— and nothing else, —— only. bare contract in Law: an unconditional promise or surrender.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > bare or mere
barec1200
scarce1297
mere1547
single1639
bare-weighta1763
scant1856
just1884
the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] > without addition or qualification > bare or mere
mereeOE
nakedOE
barec1200
purec1325
singlec1421
very1548
nude1551
absolute?1570
blank1596
female1602
clear1606
the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement
forewardOE
accordc1275
covenant1297
end1297
form1297
frettec1330
conjurationc1374
treatc1380
bargainc1386
contractc1386
comenaunt1389
compositionc1405
treaty1427
pact1429
paction1440
reconventionc1449
treatisea1464
hostage1470
packa1475
trystc1480
bond (also band) of manrent1482
covenance1484
concordance1490
patisement1529
capitulation1535
conventmenta1547
convenience1551
compact1555
negotiation1563
sacrament1563
match1569
consortship1592
after-agreementa1600
combourgeoisie1602
convention1603
comburghership1606
transaction1611
end-makingc1613
obligement1627
bare contract1641
stipulation1649
accompackmentc1650
rue-bargaina1657
concordat1683
minute1720
tacka1758
understanding1803
meet1804
it's a go1821
deal1863
whizz1869
stand-in1870
gentlemen's agreement1880
meeting of minds1883
c1200 Moral Ode 137 in Lamb. Hom. 167 Hefde he bon þer enne dei oðer twa bare tide.
c1315 Shoreham 35 Man moȝe isaued be Thorȝ bare repentaunce.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 286 I set it at no more accompt, Than wolde a bare straw amount.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vi. xvi. 105 They taught Christ to be..but a bare man.
1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 122 Many drunk bare wine.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 211 Bare contract, or naked promise, is where a man bargaineth or selleth his lands, or goods..and there is no recompence appointed to him for the doing thereof..This is a naked contract, and voyd in Law.
1697 Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 109 Who can do you hurt by bare looking on you.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 69. ¶5 Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare Necessaries of Life.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xiii. 87 A bare contradiction will have no weight.
1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) xix. 373 A bare majority of seven to five.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] > without addition or qualification > bare or mere > as complete in itself
barec1275
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10416 Ich habbe hine idriuen to þan bare dæðe.
a1330 Sire Degarré 561 Thei he be the bare qued, He schal a-doune.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xxiv. 9682 With strong batell & brem till the bare night.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xxiv. 10805 Born to þe burghe in the bare tyme, Honerable Ector in armes to helpe.
B. adv. [compare Swedish bara only, German baar.] † 1. Thoroughly, completely. (Cf. A. 12). Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly
allOE
allOE
outlyOE
thwert-outc1175
skerea1225
thoroughc1225
downrightc1275
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purelyc1300
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quitec1330
quitelyc1330
utterlyc1374
outerlya1382
plainlya1382
straighta1387
allutterly1389
starkc1390
oultrelya1393
plata1393
barec1400
outrightc1400
incomparablyc1422
absolutely?a1425
simpliciter?a1425
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quitementa1450
properlyc1450
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incomparable1482
preciselyc1503
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perfectly1555
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sheerly1601
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peremptorily1626
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right-down1646
solid1651
clever1664
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hollow1671
entirely1673
blank1677
even down1677
cleverly1696
uncomparatively1702
subtly1733
point1762
cussed1779
regularly1789
unqualifiedly1789
irredeemably1790
positively1800
cussedly1802
heart1812
proper1816
slick1818
blankly1822
bang1828
smack1828
pluperfectly1831
unmitigatedly1832
bodaciously1833
unredeemedly1835
out of sight1839
bodacious1845
regular1846
thoroughly1846
ingrainedly1869
muckinga1880
fucking1893
motherless1898
self1907
stone1928
sideways1956
terminally1974
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 465 Ȝet breued watȝ hit ful bare A meruayl among þo menne.
2. With numeral adjectives: No more than, at most; scarcely, barely adv. archaic or Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > barely, scarcely, only, or just
uneathc1200
scarcely1297
albusyc1325
onlepyc1350
anerly1381
barec1400
scarce1413
scantlyc1440
narrowlyc1450
scant1492
barelya1513
hardly?1532
faintly1544
nakedly1589
just1603
rawly1607
just1627
badly1715
scrimp1756
bare-weighta1763
scrimplya1774
jimp1814
jistc1820
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1573 Out-taken bare two & þenne he þe þrydde.
1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 46 Errors..of bare 80 yeres continuans.
1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion iii. 24 As hot-headed with my bare two Bottles, as a drunken Prentice.
1716 London Gaz. 5410/4 Weighs bare ten Grains.
C. n. [the adjective used absol.] figurative.c1600 Marston in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) You have touched the very bare of truth.† 2. A bare space or place. Obsolete.
1. A naked part of the body; the bare skin.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [noun] > bare skin
barec1300
buff1654
birthday clothes1732
birthday gear1734
birthday suit1734
birthday attire1803
c1300 St. Brandan 612 And helede al aboute his bodi, nas ther no bar on him bileved.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark xiv. f. lxvijv Cloothed in linnen apon the bare.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xiv. 5821 Hit shot þrough..þe shire maile, to þe bare of þe body.
1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King ii. sig. D1v If euer I toucht any bare on her aboue her knee.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 16/1 The downtrodden slippers tied on with string, toes out, and hardly any sole: the child is walking ‘on the bare’, as the saying is.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > barren land or desert
desert?c1225
bare1683
slate-land1733
barren1784
mesquite1834
badlands1850
hardscrabble1859
pindan1888
in (also up) the blue1963
wasteland1966
1683–4 Great Frost (1844) Introd. 19 Her [Thames'] watry green [shou'd] be turn'd into a bare.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Bare, a Place without Grass, made smooth to Bowl in.
Compounds
C1. Specially.
bare-arse n. dialect name of the Little Grebe.
bare-belly n. Australian and New Zealand a sheep with no wool on the belly; so bare-bellied adj.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of parts of > having a fleece > having no wool on the belly
bare-bellied1878
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > fleece > sheep defined by
short wool1837
bare-belly1878
1878 E. S. Elwell Boy Colonists 109 The ewes have many of them at shearing-time no wool on the legs or under the belly, and hence are called ‘bare-bellies’. Of course, these ‘bare-bellied’ ewes..are very quickly shorn.
?a1880 G. L. Meredith Adventuring in Maoriland (1935) xiii. 143 Naturally, the easiest-shorn sheep—‘bare-bellies’ and ‘bare-points’—are selected first.
1956 G. Bowen Wool Away! (ed. 2) 155 Bare-belly, a sheep with all the wool scraped or dropped off its belly.
1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry i. 6 Barebelly, a sheep with defective wool growth caused by a break in the fibre structure. This causes the wool to fall off the belly and legs, and the rest of the wool can be removed with a few blows or even with the hands.
bare-board n. in to go on bare-board, to play without a stake on the gaming-table.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > play games of chance [verb (intransitive)] > play without stake
to go on bare-board1655
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 362 To vye ready silver with the King of Spaine, when He..was fain to go on Bare board.
bare-bone n. a lean, skinny person.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having
staffc1405
notomy1487
rakea1529
crag1542
scrag1542
sneakbill1546
starveling1546
slim1548
ghost1590
bald-rib1598
bare-bone1598
bow-case1599
atomy1600
sneaksbill1602
thin-gut1602
anatomya1616
sharg1623
skeleton1630
raw-bone1635
living skeleton1650
strammel1706
scarecrow1711
rickle of bones1729
shargar1754
squeeze-crab1785
rack of bones1804
thread-paper1824
bag of bones1838
dry-bones1845
skinnymalink1870
hairpin1879
slim jim1889
skinny1907
underweight1910
asthenic1925
ectomorph1940
skinny-malinky1957
matchstick1959
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 329 Here commes leane iacke, here commes bare bone . View more context for this quotation
bare-fallow n. land left fallow for a whole year; = naked fallow n. at naked adj. and n.1 Compounds 2; hence as v., to leave land fallow for a whole year.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > fallow land > long fallow
long fallow1810
bare-fallow1831
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivate or till [verb (transitive)] > lay fallow
summerlay1467
fauch1579
summer fallow1625
rest1634
summerland1667
summer work1687
winter-fallowa1722
pin-fallow1808
dead-fallow1851
fallow1873
bare-fallow1961
1831 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (ed. 2) iii. vi. 801 The expediency or inexpediency of pulverising and cleaning the soil by a bare fallow, is a question that can be determined only by experience, and not by argument.
1961 Agric. Hist. Rev. IX. 3 A larger proportion of land was bare-fallowed.
bare-fallowing n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation > fallowing
summer fallow1601
winter fallow1601
fallowing1610
summer fallowing1610
foiling1616
pin fallow1688
winter-fallowing1707
summer-working1778
bare-fallowing1829
summer work1886
1829 Q. Jrnl. Agric. 2 No. 7. 101 Some writers maintain, that bare fallowing is not necessary on any kind of soil, as judicious management will prevent an influx of weeds.
1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. ix. 161 Bare-fallowing of land in place of manuring was too much practised as a means of restoration.
bare-man n. obsolete term in Scots Law for a bankrupt or ‘broken’ man.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [noun] > one who is insolvent
bankrupt?1563
bare-man1581
Ludgatian1600
non-solvent1647
insolvent1725
fraudulent1796
brosier1826
1581 Acts Jas. VI (1597) §110 To hound out bair-men and vagabounds, to the attempting of sik foull..enormities.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem Table 66 Bairman..is he quha makes cession of his gudes and geir to his creditours.
C2. adjectives formed by bare qualifying a noun. (Also adv.: see A. 11), barefoot adj. and adv., barehead adj. and adv.
bare-bosom adj.
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1927 D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico 43 A bare-bosom, black-browed girl.
bare-breech adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > buttocks
bare-arsed1546
bare-breech1577
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vi. f. 21v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Such barebrich brattes, as swarme in the English pale.
bare-foot adj.
ΚΠ
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4410 Sone he dude hine bar-fot [c1300 Otho bareuot].
bare-leg adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > limbs > legs
bare-leggeda1375
bare-leg1483
1483 Cath. Angl. 21/1 Barlege, incaligatus.
1587 Cens. Loyall Subj. (Collier) 25 Bareleg and barefoot they wandred.
bare-limb adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > limbs
bare-limb1582
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil Descr. Liparen in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 95 Baerlym swartye Pyracmon.
bare-weight adj.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > bare or mere
barec1200
scarce1297
mere1547
single1639
bare-weighta1763
scant1856
just1884
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > barely, scarcely, only, or just
uneathc1200
scarcely1297
albusyc1325
onlepyc1350
anerly1381
barec1400
scarce1413
scantlyc1440
narrowlyc1450
scant1492
barelya1513
hardly?1532
faintly1544
nakedly1589
just1603
rawly1607
just1627
badly1715
scrimp1756
bare-weighta1763
scrimplya1774
jimp1814
jistc1820
a1763 W. Shenstone Ess. in Wks. (1765) II. 172 A Miser, if honest, can be only honest bare-weight.
1801 H. More Wks. VIII. 248 Such bare-weight protestants prudently condition for retaining the Popish doctrine of indulgences.
C3. Parasynthetic adjectives formed with -ed suffix1.
bare-armed adj. Having the arms bare.
bare-arsed adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > buttocks
bare-arsed1546
bare-breech1577
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ix. sig. Civ There is nothyng more vayne,..Than to beg a breeche of a bare arst man.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xv. 276 Nowt but a bare-arsed lass.
1950 E. Hemingway Across River & into Trees v. 29 Beyond the Sile there was nothing but bare-assed plain.
bare-bosomed adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > chest or breasts
open-breasted1598
bare-bosomed1809
bare-chested1873
topless1966
1809 M. Berry Jrnl. 31 May in ‘Lewis Melville’ Berry Papers (1914) vi. 291 Such an over-dressed, bare-bosomed, painted eye-browed figure one never saw!
1855 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass 27 Press close barebosomed night!
bare-breasted adj.
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1975 Forbes 1 July 34/1 As bare-breasted dancers bounced and the orchestra blared, Jim Walter, stone sober, fell sound asleep.
1986 Los Angeles Times 20 July v. 4/4 I was surprised that he didn't require that the bare-breasted statue be fitted with a brassiere.
bare-breeched adj.
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1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 147 These bare-breeched Dunniewassals.
bare-chested adj.
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1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xii. 403 Stately maidens and bare-chested youths.
bare-fingered adj.
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1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 209 Then must bare-finger'd [= ringless] Pollio beg or fast.
bare-knuckled adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > other
bare-necked1603
bare-backed1834
bare-knuckled1924
bottomless1964
1924 J. Masefield Sard Harker i. 5 The truth man learns Fighting bare-knuckled Nature in the ring.
bare-legged adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > limbs > legs
bare-leggeda1375
bare-leg1483
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2767 A barlegged bold boie.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xv. 212 Four bare-legged dairy-maids. View more context for this quotation
bare-necked adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > other
bare-necked1603
bare-backed1834
bare-knuckled1924
bottomless1964
1603 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues (new ed.) 347 He would go out bare-necked to the wast.
bare-ribbed adj.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > not covered by flesh
unfleshed1607
bare-ribbeda1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 177 In his fore-head sits A bare-rib'd death. View more context for this quotation
bare-throated adj.
bare-walled adj.
C4. participial adjectives in which bare acts as a verbal complement, as bare-bitten, bare-eaten, bare-gnawn, bare-worn.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > biting > [adjective] > bitten
bare-bitten1577
bare-gnawn1577
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > worn bare
bare-worn1577
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [adjective] > pasture > poor or overgrazed
bare-eaten1577
sheep-sick1895
overgrazed1921
bush-sick1950
1577 H. I. in tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. Pref. sig. ¶.iijv Ministers..bare bitten of their patrones.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxvii. 96 A subject, common, bare-worne, and wyer-drawne.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 119 By treasons tooth. Bare -gnawne. View more context for this quotation
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) ix. 7 On their bare-eaten ground.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 308 Ev'n the bareworn common is denied.
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bare trust n. Law (chiefly British) a trust that imposes no active duties on the trustee, other than that of conveying the property to the beneficiary when required; a naked, simple, or passive trust (opposed to active trust).
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1648 J. March Reports 152 Being a bare trust, is not taken away by the Statute of Limitations.
1725 G. Jacob Student's Compan. 49 There is but a bare Trust and Authority, which ought to be strictly observed.
1825 J. H. Leigh & R. Dalzell Treat. Equitable Doctr. Conversion Prop. ii. 8 There is a bare trust given to the executors.
1912 S. F. Mordecai Law Notes II. 548 Only naked or bare trusts can be reached under these statutes.
2015 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 15 Feb. (Business section) 10 In the current low deposit interest rate environment, it would also be a good idea to consider setting up a bare trust.
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bare-looking adj.
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1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xiv. 134 It was a large, bare-looking room,..with a spacious table in the centre.
1946 Commentary May 58/1 The bare-looking store..fronts for a backroom bookie place and fools nobody, not even the police.
2004 M. Gatiss Vesuvius Club 39 It was a bare-looking suite of rooms with frosted windows and a long, dark counter that occupied half its width.
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slang (chiefly British). Many or much; a lot of. [This sense appears to have originated in Caribbean English, and evolved from the sense ‘nothing but, too much of’ (compare sense A. 11); see quot. 1996.]
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1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage 81/1 Bare,..(Bdos) nothing but, and therefore too much of. Her room is bare clothes, pack up everywhere.]
1997 C. Newland Scholar xiii. 207 You guys should min' yourselves walkin' street star, dere's bere nutters about.
2005 Guardian (Nexis) 13 July We'd go round the corner, pass something to someone, go back and we'd have bare dough, we'd have bare money in our pocket.
2010 N. Shukla Coconut Unlimited iv. 77 We got bare work to do.
2018 @ramoldn 29 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Bare people confuse twitter for real life.
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British slang. As an intensifier: very, extremely.
ΚΠ
2003 C. Lewis Dict. Playground Slang 21 That homework was bare hard.
2009 @Sam_wise 6 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) This is actually a bare good song innit bruv.
2012 Z. Smith NW (2013) 114 Those girls, man... Ruby's bare lazy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
barev.
/bɛː/, U.S. /bɛ(ə)r/ 1. transitive. To make or lay bare, uncover, open to view; to unsheathe (a weapon).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > uncover and expose
unwryc825
bareOE
unhelec1000
uncoverc1390
disclosea1393
to lay outa1400
unhidea1400
declose14..
unbare1530
discover1563
imbear1657
fleece1667
unfence1715
to lay bare1807
to open out1832
strip1839
expose1851
OE Beowulf 1239 Bencþelu beredon.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 1878 Þorow a fowel..may we knaw if þe erþ barid be.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 14 The pith to bare is not thaire kynde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 49 And thus vnbraced..Haue bar'd my Bosome to the Thunder-stone. View more context for this quotation
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 527 His tusks..the sinewy fibres tore, And bar'd the bone.
1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) ii. §4. 197 Earl Warrenne bared a rusty sword.
1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket iii. iii. 133 He bows, he bares his head.
2. figurative. To disclose, reveal, make manifest.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > manifestation > [verb (transitive)]
uppec897
atewOE
sutelec1000
openOE
awnc1175
kithec1175
forthteec1200
tawnec1220
let witc1275
forthshowa1300
to pilt out?a1300
showa1300
barea1325
mythc1330
unfoldc1374
to open outc1390
assign1398
mustera1400
reyve?a1400
vouchc1400
manifest?a1425
outshowc1425
ostendc1429
explayc1443
objecta1500
reveala1500
patefy?1509
decipher1529
relieve1533
to set outa1540
utter1542
report1548
unbuckle1548
to set forth1551
demonstrate1553
to hold forth1560
testify1560
explicate1565
forthsetc1565
to give show of1567
denudec1572
exhibit1573
apparent1577
display?1578
carry1580
cipher1583
laya1586
foreshow1590
uncloud?1594
vision1594
explain1597
proclaim1597
unroll1598
discloud1600
remonstrate1601
resent1602
to bring out1608
palesate1613
pronounce1615
to speak out1623
elicit1641
confess1646
bear1657
breathe1667
outplay1702
to throw out1741
evolve1744
announce1781
develop1806
exfoliate1808
evince1829
exposit1882
pack1925
society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)]
unwryc825
unhelec1000
to draw forthc1175
unhillc1200
to bring forth?c1225
unsteekc1250
let witc1275
uncovera1300
wraya1300
knowc1300
barea1325
shrivec1374
unwrapc1374
again-covera1382
nakena1382
outc1390
tellc1390
disclosea1393
cough1393
unhidea1400
unclosec1400
unhaspc1400
bewrayc1405
reveal1409
accusea1413
reveil1424
unlocka1425
unrekec1425
disclude?1440
uncurec1440
utter1444
detect1447
break1463
expose1483
divinec1500
revelate1514
to bring (also put) to light1526
decipher1529
rake1547
rip1549
unshadow1550
to lay to sight1563
uppen1565
unlace1567
unvisor?1571
resign1572
uncloak1574
disshroud1577
spill1577
reap1578
unrip1579
scour1585
unharboura1586
unmask1586
uncase1587
descrya1591
unclasp?1592
unrive1592
discover1594
unburden1594
untomb1594
unhusk1596
dismask1598
to open upc1600
untruss1600
divulge1602
unshale1606
unbrace1607
unveil1609
rave1610
disveil1611
unface1611
unsecret1612
unvizard1620
to open up1624
uncurtain1628
unscreen1628
unbare1630
disenvelop1632
unclothe1632
to lay forth1633
unshroud1633
unmuffle1637
midwife1638
dissecret1640
unseal1640
unmantle1643
to fetch out1644
undisguise1655
disvelop1658
decorticate1660
clash1667
exert1692
disinter1711
to up with1715
unbundlea1739
develop1741
disembosom1745
to open out1814
to let out1833
unsack1846
uncrown1849
to bring (out) in (also into) the open1861
unfrock1866
disbosom1868
to blow the lid off1928
flush1950
surface1955
to take or pull the wraps off1964
c1000 Ælfric Joshua ii. 20 Gif ðú abarast úre sprǽce.]
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1912 His fader he it gan vn-hillen & baren.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1149 Þat watz bared in Babyloyn.
a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. ii. sig. E7, in Five New Playes (1653) To fall out, and bare one anothers secrets.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 19 Tear off reserve, and bare my swelling heart.
1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Julian the Apostate They did bare the secrets of the grave.
3. To strip, divest. Const. of, from.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) > completely
bestrip1065
stripa1225
shavec1399
barec1440
strip1594
shrig1601
undress1641
drain1660
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare
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c1440 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) ii. xx Vntyll a soule can..baren [bareyn 1533] hym from all the good dedes that he dooth.
1443 King Henry VI in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. iii. 34 I. 80 Werres..haue bared vs gretely of tresore.
1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Induct. 2 With blustring blastes had al ybared the treen.
1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xix. 367 He quite bared his garden in feeding us.
1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 42 Stripped of every disguise, and bared of all that is conventional.
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