Bare vs Savage - What's the difference?
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Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
* Addison
Naked, uncovered.
Having no supplies.
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Having no decoration.
Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
(British, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
With head uncovered; bareheaded.
* Herbert
Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
* Milton
Threadbare; much worn.
* Shakespeare
(British, slang) Very; significantly.
Barely.
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Without a condom
the surface, the (bare) skin
* 1599 ,
* 2002 , Darren Shan, Hunters of the dusk: 7 :
Surface; body; substance.
* Marston
(architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
To uncover; to reveal.
(obsolete) (bear)
* Bible, Josh. iii. 15
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
wild; not cultivated
* Dryden
barbaric; not civilized
* 1719-
* E. D. Griffin
fierce and ferocious
brutal, vicious or merciless
(UK, slang) unpleasant or unfair
(pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
* 1847 , , Tancred: or The New Crusade , page 251
(figuratively) A defiant person.
To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
(figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
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, title= (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
(obsolete) To make savage.
* South
As proper nouns the difference between bare and savage
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- a bare majority
- the bare necessaries of life
- Don't show your bare backside in public.
- a room bare of furniture
- The cupboard was bare .
- Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare .
- The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?
- The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
- It's bare money to get in the club each time, man.
- When once thy foot enters the church, be bare .
- Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear!
- It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words.
Synonyms
* (minimal) mere, minimal * (without a condom) * (naked) exposed, naked, nude, uncovered, undressed * (having no supplies) empty, unfurnished, unstocked, unsupplied * (having no decoration) empty, plain, unadorned, undecorated * (having had what usually covers (something) removed ): despoiled, stripped, uncoveredAntonyms
* (minimal) ample, plentiful, sufficient * (naked) covered, covered up, dressed, unexposed * (having no supplies) full, furnished, stocked, supplied, well-stocked * (having no decoration) adorned, decorated, ornate * coveredDerived terms
* ace bare * bareback * barebacked * bare boards * bareboat * barebone * bare bones * bare-breasted * bare-chested * barefaced * barefoot, barefooted * barehanded * bareheaded * bare-knuckle fight * bareland * barelegged * barely * bareness * bare patch * barish * in one's bare skin * king bare * lay bare * threadbare * with one's bare handsAdverb
- This porno's bare whack, bruv.
Noun
(en noun)- In sad good earnest, sir, you have toucht the very bare of naked truth [...]
- Vancha clasped the bare of my neck and squeezed amiably.
- You have touched the very bare of naked truth.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m).Verb
(bar)- She bared her teeth at him.
Synonyms
* (uncover) expose, lay bare, reveal, show, uncoverAntonyms
* (uncover) cover, cover up, hideDerived terms
* bare one's breast * bare one's soul * bare one's teethEtymology 3
Inflected forms.Verb
(head)- The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water.
- And so I put thee on my shoulder and bare thee back, and here thou art in David's room, and shalt find board and bed with me as long as thou hast mind to
References
* *savage
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a savage wilderness
- savage berries of the wood
- savage manners
- I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.
- What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?
- savage beasts
- a savage spirit
- He gave the dog a savage kick.
- The woman was killed in a savage manner.
- - I'll see you in detention.
- Ah, savage !
Noun
(en noun)- 'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages'.'
'They are not ' savages , Freeman.'
'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'
Verb
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- Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.