Definition/Meaning of bare

• English - Adjective: bare (comparative barer, superlative barest) Minimal ; that is or are just sufficient. a bare majority 1711 May 29 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, May 19, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 69; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC: Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare…
• English - Adverb: bare (dialectal) Barely . 2011, Elizabeth Vaughan, Warprize: “I've bare enough for these two, much less fill your belly.” 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide: The fiend had bare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire. (Multicultural London English, slang) Very; significantly. That's bare stupid. That pissed me off bare . (slang)…
• English - Noun: bare (plural bares) (with the) The surface, the (bare) skin. 2002, Darren Shan, Hunters of the dusk: 7: Vancha clasped the bare of my neck and squeezed amiably. 1599, John Marston, Antonio and Mellida: In sad good earnest, sir, you have toucht the very bare of naked truth [...] Surface; body; substance. c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The…
• English - Verb: bare (third-person singular simple present bares, present participle baring, simple past and past participle bared) (figuratively, sometimes, transitive) To uncover ; to reveal . She bared her teeth at him. The tabloid newspaper promised to bare all. bare (obsolete, past) simple past of bear 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Chronicles…
• English - References: bare in The Century Dictionary , The Century Co ., New York , 1911 bare in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913