1.b> 1) , ; bare to the waist / ; bare knees ; bare feet ; with one's head bare ;
2) , ; to lay bare , ; he laid his heart bare before her ; their plans were laid bare / / ;
3) ; ; bare walls / ( i>); bare floor ; bare pate ; to sleep on bare boards ; to fight with bare hands / ; the house stood on a bare hillside ; the country was eaten bare by locusts ; bare flank .i> ;
4) .i> , ;
2.b> (of) i> ; a room bare of furniture ; bare of fear ; to be bare of credit ; ;
3.b> 1) ; ; bare facts ; to tell the bare truth / ; bare recital of the proceedings / ;
2) , , ; the bare statement ; to believe smb. on his bare word, to take smb. at his bare word , ; bare excuses / ;
4.b> 1) ; ; , ; bare possibility / chance / ; bare civility , ( i>); bare subsistence wage , ; ; he earned a bare living / ; deprived of the bare necessities of life ; elected a bare majority ; he gets a bare third of a column in the encyclopaedia ; he offered the man a bare fiver to do the job (i>) ;
2) .-.i> , ; at the bare mention of his name she would begin to cry ; the bare thought of such a crime made her shudder ;
5.b> .i> ;
bare weightb> ; bare contractb> .i> i> i> ; in one's bare skinb> ; ; as bare as Jobb> ; the bare flesh cannot stand itb> .
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