Meaning

2 senses

  1. To box without boxing gloves.

  2. To attack or overpower ruthlessly.

Forms

bare-knuckles, bare-knuckling, bare-knuckled, bare-knuckled
Base formbare-knuckle · to bare-knuckle
3rd person singularbare-knuckles
Present participlebare-knuckling
Past simplebare-knuckled
Past participlebare-knuckled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybare-knuckle
he, she, itbare-knuckles

Past simpleLesson

all personsbare-knuckled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bare-knuckled
he, she, ithas bare-knuckled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bare-knuckle

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bareB2bareback

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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