There is considerable confusion between the verbs bear and bare. It may help to remember that the verb bare has only one meaning: "to uncover," as in " bare your shoulders" and "a dog baring its teeth."
BARE definition: without covering or clothing; naked; nude. See examples of bare used in a sentence.
Idiom bare naked (Definition of bare from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
unclothed; exposed: used esp of a part of the body without the natural, conventional, or usual covering or clothing lacking appropriate furnishings, etc unembellished; simple: the bare facts with one's bare hands ⇒ without a weapon or tool vb
A bare surface is not covered or decorated with anything. They would have liked bare wooden floors throughout the house.
Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked: a bare arm. 2. Exposed to view; undisguised: bare fangs. 3. Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration: bare walls. 4. Having no addition, adornment, or qualification: the bare facts. 5. Just sufficient; mere: the bare necessities. 6. Obsolete Bareheaded. 1.
According to the English dictionary, bare is an adjective that means “having no covering or clothing.” It can also be used as a verb, meaning “to remove the covering from something.” The word comes from the Old English bær and has a related word in the Dutch baar (the latter of which can mean “bar”).
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