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Adjective
bare, naked, nude, bald, barren mean deprived of naturally or conventionally appropriate covering. bare implies the removal of what is additional, superfluous, ornamental, or dispensable.
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an apartment with bare walls naked suggests absence of protective or ornamental covering but may imply a state of nature, of destitution, or of defenselessness.
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poor half-naked children nude applies especially to the unclothed human figure.
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a nude model posing for art students bald implies actual or seeming absence of natural covering and may suggest a conspicuous bareness.
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a bald mountain peak barren often suggests aridity or impoverishment or sterility.
//barren plains
Adjective
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1602, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
Adjective and Verb
Middle English balled; probably akin to Danish dialect bældet bald, Latin fulica coot, Greek phalios having a white spot, Old English bǣl fire, pyre
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