A surname. / A suburb of Morecambe, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England, served by Bare Lane railway station (OS grid ref SD4564).

Minimal; that is or are just sufficient. / Naked, uncovered. / Having no supplies. / Having no decoration. / Having had what usually covers (something) removed.

(dialect) Barely. / (MLE, slang) Very; significantly. / (slang) Without a condom.

(‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin. / Surface; body; substance. / (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

(transitive) To uncover; to reveal.

(obsolete) simple past tense of bear

(degree) By a small margin. / (degree) Almost not at all. / (archaic) merely.

The state of being bare.

simple past tense and past participle of bare

present participle of bare