There is considerable confusion between the verbs bear and bare. It may help to remember that the verb bare has only one meaning: "to uncover," as in " bare your shoulders" and "a dog baring its teeth."
BARE definition: without covering or clothing; naked; nude. See examples of bare used in a sentence.
Idiom bare naked (Definition of bare from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
A bare surface is not covered or decorated with anything. They would have liked bare wooden floors throughout the house.
Bare, stark, barren share the sense of lack or absence of something that might be expected.
Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked: a bare arm. 2. Exposed to view; undisguised: bare fangs. 3. Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration: bare walls. 4. Having no addition, adornment, or qualification: the bare facts. 5. Just sufficient; mere: the bare necessities. 6. Obsolete Bareheaded. 1.
According to the English dictionary, bare is an adjective that means “having no covering or clothing.” It can also be used as a verb, meaning “to remove the covering from something.” The word comes from the Old English bær and has a related word in the Dutch baar (the latter of which can mean “bar”).
Make visible, allow others to see "bare your breasts "; "bare your feelings " Make public "She bared her opinions on welfare "; - publicize, publicise [Brit], air Remove or clear everything so that nothing is left "The winter storms bared the trees "; - denude, denudate, strip Sounds like: bear Derived forms: bared, baring, barer, barest, bares