Definitions for Bare

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Bare bare

Spelling: [bair]

IPA: /bɛər/

Bare is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in Bare (aber).

Definitions for Bare

noun

1. any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
2. any of various animals resembling the bear, as the ant bear.
3. a gruff, burly, clumsy, bad-mannered, or rude person.
4. a person who believes that market prices, especially of stocks, will decline (opposed to bull).
5. Informal. a person who shows great ability, enthusiasm, stamina, etc.:
6. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. either of two constellations, Ursa Major or Ursa Minor.
7. Informal. a player at cards who rarely bluffs.
8. (initial capital letter) Russia.

verb

1. simple past tense of bear1 .

Idioms

1. bring to bear, to concentrate on with a specific purpose:
2. loaded for bear, Informal. fully prepared and eager to initiate or deal with a fight, confrontation, or trouble:

adjective

1. without covering or clothing; naked; nude:
2. without the usual furnishings, contents, etc.:
3. open to view; unconcealed; undisguised:
4. unadorned; bald; plain:
5. (of cloth) napless or threadbare.
6. scarcely or just sufficient; mere:
7. Obsolete. with the head uncovered; bareheaded.
8. having to do with or marked by declining prices, as of stocks:

Verb phrases

1. bear down, to press or weigh down. to strive harder; intensify one's efforts: Nautical. to approach from windward, as a ship:
2. bear down on/upon, to press or weigh down on. to strive toward. to approach something rapidly. Nautical. to approach (another vessel) from windward:
3. bear off, Nautical. to keep (a boat) from touching or rubbing against a dock, another boat, etc. Nautical. to steer away. Backgammon. to remove the stones from the board after they are all home.
4. bear on/upon, to affect, relate to, or have connection with; be relevant to:
5. bear out, to substantiate; confirm:
6. bear up, to endure; face hardship bravely:
7. bear with, to be patient or forbearing with:

verb (used with object)

1. to open to view; reveal or divulge:
2. to hold up; support:
3. to hold or remain firm under (a load):
4. to bring forth (young); give birth to:
5. to produce by natural growth:
6. to hold up under; be capable of:
7. to press or push against:
8. to hold or carry (oneself, one's body, one's head, etc.):
9. to conduct (oneself):
10. to suffer; endure; undergo:
11. to sustain without yielding or suffering injury; tolerate (usually used in negative constructions, unless qualified):
12. to be fit for or worthy of:
13. to carry; bring:
14. to carry in the mind or heart:
15. to transmit or spread (gossip, tales, etc.).
16. to render; afford; give:
17. to lead; guide; take:
18. to have and be entitled to:
19. to exhibit; show:
20. to accept or have, as an obligation:
21. to stand in (a relation or ratio); have or show correlatively:
22. to possess, as a quality or characteristic; have in or on:
23. to have and use; exercise:
24. Stock Exchange. to force prices down in (a market, stock, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to tend in a course or direction; move; go:
2. to be located or situated:
3. to bring forth young or fruit:

Origin of Bare

before 900; Middle English; Old English bær; cognate with Old Frisian ber, Dutch baar, Old Saxon, Old High German, German bar, Old Norse berr, Lithuanian bãsas barefoot, Russian bos; akin to

Examples for Bare

More than a bare recital of the wretched facts, therefore, is not seemly.

The ministry escaped censure when the vote was taken by a bare majority.

Her throat was bare, and she saw the muscles of it knotted in the struggle for life.

Of course the scenes we worried about the most—when Joan was the most vulnerable and bare—were not a concern for her.

The bare reference to a single consideration will be conclusive on this point.

The American Academy of Pediatrics advocates for infants to be put to sleep in a bare crib to prevent SIDS.

Maybe, just maybe he'd be able to get the message across if he stripped it down to its bare bones.

The bare bones of an already-anemic effort to fight the epidemic in West Africa that is threatening to destroy the entire region.

“bare [sic] with me on vlogmas,” she told her fans in a Tweet.

By shifting his position his lips came close to her bare young arm.