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• v  lay bare
  bare your breasts
  bare your feelings
• v  make public
• v  lay bare
• s  completely unclothed
  bare bodies
• s  lacking in amplitude or quantity
  a bare livelihood
• a  not having a protective covering
  a bare blade
• a  lacking its natural or customary covering
  a bare hill
  bare feet
• s  just barely adequate or within a lower limit
  a bare majority
• s  apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
  only the bare facts
• s  lacking a surface finish such as paint
  bare wood
• s  providing no shelter or sustenance
  bare rocky hills
• s  having everything extraneous removed including contents
  the bare walls
  the cupboard was bare
• s  lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• Either they have just arrived or they are just leaving, because their desks are almost bare.
• Claud Dry and Dale Orcutt, of Athens, Ohio, buddies from the Civil Air Patrol, wanted to sell bare-boned utility car that anybody could afford, unlike that bloody elitist peacenik .
• The Great Gatsby lays bare the empty, tragic heart of the self-made man.

• publicize
• publicise
• air
• denude
• denudate
• strip
• au naturel
• naked
• nude
• scanty
• spare
• unsheathed
• marginal
• mere
• simple
• unfinished
• barren
• bleak
• desolate
• stark
• stripped
• plain
• unembellished
• unornamented

• sheathed
• covered

News & Articles

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• Review: Whedon's 'Much Ado' is charming if slight
  Joss Whedon's bare-bones "Much Ado About Nothing" is the cinematic equivalent of Shakespeare in the parking lot - and proof, again, that it doesn't take much doing to bring Shakespeare to life.
  June 13, 2013 - Savannah Morning News
• HP bucks Microsoft, will promote Google Apps to small businesses
  Microsoft Office is by far the most comprehensive suite of productivity services around, but what if you own a small business with bare-bones requirements for word processing and spread sheets? AllThingsD reports that HP is teaming up with Google to promote Google Apps as a free alternative for companies that don’t want to pay Microsoft fees to use Office. HP “will package [Google's] management ...
  June 13, 2013 - BGR News via Yahoo! News
• THE SCREENING ROOM: Half Hour 3 Concert, With Understudies From Bare, Newsies, The Lion King, Pippin
  Understudies from the 2013 Tony-winning revival of Pippin, the Off-Broadway musical Bare, Newsies and The Lion King stood in the spotlight at Half Hour 3 June 2 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Here are highlights from the evening.
  June 12, 2013 - Playbill

Quotes

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• Michael Bloomberg in International Herald Tribune
  I cannot tell you where the tree is going to be, for obvious reasons, because it'll be stripped bare in about 30 seconds,said Bloomberg, wearing a green tie in honor of the Jets.
• Alain Robert in FOXNews
  I am climbing with my bare hands, as a PEACEFUL way to create support for far greater and urgent action from world leaders on global warming,Robert said in a press release he issued in advance. "Greenhouse gas emissions are still climbing....
• Alan Johnson in FOX News
  Johnson said the "bare below the elbows" dress code would help prevent the spread of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, the deadly bacteria resistant to nearly every available antibiotic.