Meaning

3 senses

  1. (dialectal)Barely.

  2. (Multicultural London English, slang)Very; significantly.

    That pissed me off bare.

    That's bare stupid.

  3. (slang)Without a condom.

Examples

201 sentences

  1. She choked him with her bare hands.

    Вона задушила його голими руками. — Ahha

    ruОна задушила его голыми руками. — Vixen96

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  2. Tom's feet were bare.

    Том був босоніж. — deniko

    ruНоги у Тома были босые. — marafon

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  3. The trees will soon be bare.

    ruСкоро оголятся деревья. — shanghainese

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  4. Tom only does the bare minimum.

    ruТом делает только самый минимум. — odexed

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  5. Tom bared his soul to Mary.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West

From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”).

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Collocations

8 patterns
  • bare bare
  • bare bare hands
  • bare hands
  • were bare bare
  • the bare bare
  • your bare bare
  • my bare bare
  • his bare bare

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
barcodebardbareback

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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