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{
"term": "bare",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "not covered by any clothes",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She likes to walk around in **bare feet**."
},
{
"text": "They wore shabby clothes and their feet were bare."
},
{
"text": "His bare legs were covered in wiry golden hairs."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "not covered with leaves; without plants or trees",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The winter sun filtered through the bare branches of the trees."
},
{
"text": "a bare mountainside"
},
{
"text": "We looked out over a bare, open landscape, stripped of vegetation."
},
{
"text": "The windows looked out onto a bare field."
},
{
"text": "They spent a cold night on the bare mountainside."
},
{
"text": "The flowers stood out like jewels against the dark, bare soil."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "remain"],
"adverb": ["very", "completely", "quite"],
"preposition": ["of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "not covered with or protected by anything",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "bare wooden floorboards"
},
{
"text": "Bare wires were sticking out of the cable."
},
{
"text": "The walls were bare except for a clock."
},
{
"text": "The only lighting was a bare bulb hanging from the ceiling."
},
{
"text": "The walls have been stripped bare."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "remain"],
"adverb": ["very", "completely", "quite"],
"preposition": ["of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "empty",
"sensetop": "bare of something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The fridge was completely bare."
},
{
"text": "bare shelves"
},
{
"text": "The house was almost bare of furniture.",
"contextForm": "bare of something"
},
{
"text": "The room looked strangely bare without the furniture."
},
{
"text": "The room was completely bare."
},
{
"text": "At many stores bare shelves greeted shoppers."
},
{
"text": "They found themselves in a huge bare hall."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "remain"],
"adverb": ["very", "completely", "quite"],
"preposition": ["of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "just enough; the most basic or simple",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The family was short of even the **bare necessities** of life."
},
{
"text": "We only had the **bare essentials** in the way of equipment."
},
{
"text": "He did the **bare minimum** of work but still passed the exam."
},
{
"text": "She gave me only the bare facts of the case."
},
{
"text": "It was the barest hint of a smile."
},
{
"text": "Nothing more is known apart from the bare statement issued to the press."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the basic facts",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the bare bones of the story"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that there is no money for something",
"labels": "(British English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They are seeking more funds but the cupboard is bare."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to show something that was covered or to make something known that was secret",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Every aspect of their private lives has been laid bare."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "without tools or weapons",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We pulled the wall down with our bare hands."
},
{
"text": "He was capable of killing a man with his bare hands."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/beə(r)/",
"audio": "ba/bare/bare__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ber/",
"audio": "ba/bare/bare__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English bær (noun), barian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch baar."
}