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 …

Idiom bare naked (Definition of bare from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

BARE definition: without covering or clothing; naked; nude. See examples of bare used in a sentence.

1. To make bare; uncover or reveal: bared their heads; baring secrets. 2. To expose: The dog bared its teeth.

If a room, cupboard, or shelf is bare, it is empty. His fridge was bare apart from three very withered tomatoes.

Bare, stark, barren share the sense of lack or absence of something that might be expected.

Bare Look up bare in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bare literally means fully or partially naked, or figuratively used it means minimal. Bare may also refer to: