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• without any clothes or not covered by anything: Don't walk around outside in your bare feet. There's no carpet in the room, just bare floorboards.
• only the most basic or important: I just packed the bare essentials (= the most basic and necessary things). There isn't much time, so I'll just give you the bare facts/details.
• without any clothes or not covered by anything: The hot sand burned my bare feet. Inside, the floors were bare and there was very little furniture.
• Bare also means the least possible or only this much of something: They had nothing beyond the bare necessities (of life) (= the most basic things you need).
• he bare minimum (also a bare minimum) the least possible amount: She eats only the bare minimum to stay alive.

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