All of our furniture is already in the moving van and the house has been left bare.Todos nuestros muebles están ya en el camión de mudanzas y ahora la casa está vacía.
1(uncovered)[+body, skin, shoulders, person]desnudo;[+head]descubierto;[+feet]descalzo;[+landscape]pelado;[+tree]sin hojas;[+ground]árido;sin vegetación;[+floorboards]sin alfombrar;(Electricity and Electronics)[+wire]pelado;sin protección
bare to the waistdesnudo hasta la cintura
the dog had a few bare patches on his back
to sleep on bare boardsdormir en una tabla
in one's bare feetdescalzo
racing through woods in her bare feetshe hurried in her bare feet across the wooden floorboardswith his bare [hands]
he put his bare hand in the flamepuso la mano directamente en la llama
she grabbed the blade of a sword with her bare hand without apparent injuryIgnoring forensic priorities now he picked up the receiver in his bare hand. [criminal, ungloved]
he killed the lion with his bare handsmató al león solo con las manos or sin armas
he pulled the child from the rubble with his bare handshe ripped the telephone directory in two with his bare hands
to lay sth bare[+flaw, mistake]poner algo de manifiesto;[+intentions, plans]poner algo al descubierto
to lay bare one's heart to sbabrir el corazón a algn;to lay bare a secretrevelar un secreto
bare of sthdesprovisto de algo
bare patch(on lawn, carpet)calva (f)
in one's bare [skin]the clearing out of disused workshops laid bare thousands of Italianate glazed tilesthe builders started to clear the site, in the process laying bare an ancient Roman mozaic
the food cupboard was barela despensa estaba vacía
they only told us the bare factsse limitaron a contarnos estrictamente los hechos
Such are the bare facts of Gauguin's lifethe editor refused to allow him to publish anything but the bare facts of the arreststhe chances of intelligent life on Mars cannot easily be dismissed. That may seem a huge imaginative leap from the bare facts presented to the American Astronomical SocietyThere is only room here to outline the bare facts
3(meagre)[+majority]escaso
the bare boneslo esencial
to strip sth down to the bare bonesreducir algo a lo esencial
she told him the bare bones of the story
the bare essentialsornecessitieslo estrictamente indispensable
to earn a bare livingganar lo justo para vivir
the bare minimumlo justo;lo indispensable
4(mere)
the match lasted a bare 18 minutesel partido duró apenas 18 minutos;sales grew at a bare 2% a yearlas ventas ascendieron apenas a un 2% al año
transitive verb
[+body]desnudar;[+wire]pelar;[+sword]desenvainar
to bare one's headdescubrirse
to bare one's soul to sbabrir el corazón a algn
the dog bared its teethel perro enseñó or mostró los dientes