Word Finder - barest

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Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.

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a bare majority

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Naked, uncovered.

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I do wonder why keeping my little breasts bare can be lewd even as none tells my brother anything for being bare-chested.

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Having no supplies.

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The cupboard was bare.

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Having no decoration.

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The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?

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Having had what usually covers (something) removed.

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The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.

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(Toronto) A lot or lots of.

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It's bare money to get in the club each time, man.

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With head uncovered; bareheaded.

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Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.

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Mere; without embellishment.

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Threadbare, very worn.

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Not insured.

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To uncover; to reveal.

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She bared her teeth at him.

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To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.

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to bear a railroad stock

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To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.

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Judging from the look on his face, he wasn't bearing good news.

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To support, sustain, or endure.

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To support, keep up, or maintain.

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To press or impinge upon.

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To produce, yield, give birth to.

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(originally nautical) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).

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By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.

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To gain or win.

That is the story in its barest outline.

Of the castle built in 1125 there are only the barest traces.

On the other hand, when time is spent on lighting design, even a room with the barest of furniture can pop with ambience.

That seems to be the point of the whole design, to cover the barest of "essentials".

The slingshot has the barest of breast coverage and a tiny front that demands a full wax before wearing.

Provide only the barest coverage possible for your employees, but offer them the option to purchase additional insurance riders for additional coverage such as dental and vision insurance.

For example, while one business may select an ample amount of coverage for employees, another business may provide only the barest coverage available.

Martha, dressed exactly as she had been when she'd left, clutched her new suitcase while the barest hint of a smile graced her pretty face.

Of scientific geographical exploration in Asia (beyond the limits of actual surveys) the modern period has been so prolific that it is only possible to refer in barest outline to some of the principal Indian expeditions, most of which have been directed either to explorers.

Save for the barest rudiments of reading and writing, he tells us that he had no master; yet we find him at Verona in 1521 an esteemed teacher of mathematics.

The commerce of these ports, both in the foreign and domestic trade, is small, tariff regulations being onerous, and the people too impoverished to be consumers of much beyond the barest necessaries of life.

Anti-Lebanon is the barest and most inhospitable part of the system.

But although the evidence of the Amarna tablets might thus support the biblical tradition in its barest outlines, the view in question, if correct, would necessitate the rejection of a great mass of the biblical narratives as a whole.

In a necessarily inadequate sketch it is impossible to give more than the barest mention to one or two other features of modern missionary achievement in India, e.g.

Of the rivers of the great eastern plains, whose waters pass through the Orinoco and Amazon to the Atlantic, little can be said beyond the barest geographical description.

On many of these desolate rocks, which could have afforded only the barest sustenance, there are remains of the dwellings and churches of early religious settlers who sought solitude here.

The second volume contains minor works which are the barest compendia of facts taken from well-known sources.

Stated in the barest form, these results do not differ greatly from the conclusions of Theagenes of Rhegium, who held that " Hephaestus was fire, Hera was air, Poseidon was water, Artemis was the moon, Kai ra Xoura bµoiws."

Such a course reduces the chances of violent counterrevolution to the barest minimum.

The fragile urban economy provides many with only the barest subsistence.

Give your cheeks the barest flush with a light application of blush.

It gives nothing but the barest facts, excepting three anecdotes about his infancy, his school days and his marriage.

Of the other tribes which are aquatic there is not space to give even the barest outline.

Of the story itself it is impossible here to give anything but the barest outline, sufficient to show its contrast with the northern version.