To save this word, you’ll need to log in. To save bare chips word, you’ll need to log in. 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.

All other uses refer to the state of being uncovered or naked and should therefore be bare: “bare necessities,” “bare essentials,” “bare arms,” “bare bones,” “bare-knuckle,” and so on. There was a rug in the front room of the house, but the other floors were bare. Do not let the bare wires touch. He covered her bare arms with his coat. He had a glove on his left hand, but his right hand was bare. The ground was bare where the statue had stood for years. There was only one bare shelf.

Her office was pretty bare, having only one desk and one chair. This is the barest room in the house. He only told me the bare facts about what happened. You could argue that the very act of conducting a lengthy poll by telephone skews the response pool.

The common mythology is that Hemingway beat Eastman to a bloody pulp, but Perkins’ account had Eastman gaining the upper hand. He bared his chest to show the scar. Its platform bed can be put together with your bare hands in less than 15 minutes. Christian Gollayan, Men’s Health, 5 Jan. Pertinently, this includes a live rattlesnake, which Nellie battles with her bare hands — albeit less successfully than your typical honey badger.

Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. Those violations included foot held at the wrong temperatures, an employee using their bare hands to work with ready-to-eat food and food kept past its expiration date. Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Dec. These dishwasher-safe pots and pans are oven-safe up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and have silicone handles that won’t ever get too hot to hold with bare hands. About 800 police, soldiers and volunteers dug through the debris with their bare hands, shovels and hoes as heavy rain hindered their efforts.

The second was when a man busted the windshield with his bare hands and had to call 911. The ensuing murder of Poseidon, and the resulting floods throughout the Greek world, set the stakes: Kratos is about to dismantle Greek polytheism with his bare hands. Gene Park, Washington Post, 4 Nov. Now, much of the state cannot bare to absorb more moisture without the possibility of even more flooding. Coming in at the top of our list, however, are dresses from Nensi Dojaka, Christopher Esber, and Staud that dare to bare it all. Cie’s Endeavour Concept Minute Repeater lays bare its tourbillon escapement and chime—marvels to behold that tend to be hidden from sight. Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 29 Aug.

Other monsters have caged heads, and zombielike creatures bare their pointy teeth. Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 2 Dec. And for the party person that dares to bare it all, there’s a sequin bra top from Khaite that pairs perfectly with its matching chiffon midi skirt. Kate Moss dared to bare with her latest red carpet look.

Without hot water flowing through the pipes at the Schonfeld Theatre, the infamous locker room scenes in the Tony-winning revival would be even more daunting to the actors who bare it all on stage. Not in time for all of the women who had to bare their souls to former U. Attorney General Sally Yates’ team and those still conducting the joint investigations for the NWSL and NWSL Players Association. Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘bare. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors.

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