Meaning & use
bare body
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Meanings
nouncountable
A person's body without any clothes on.
Grammar: Countable: you can say 'a bare body' or 'bare bodies'.
Patterns
- a bare body
- the bare body
- bare bodies
The doctor asked the patient to lie still with a bare body for the examination.
The artist sketched the bare body in charcoal.
In the hot spring, people soaked with bare bodies, respecting the local custom.
nouncountablebiology
The body of a person or animal that has no fur, feathers, or covering.
Grammar: Countable: used when talking about the natural absence of covering.
Patterns
- a bare body
- the bare body of an animal
The bird's bare body was covered only in soft down.
Some breeds of dog have a nearly bare body.
Word forms
| plural | bare bodies |
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Common combinations
- bare body and feet
- He walked on the sand with a bare body and feet.
- expose a bare body
- The sun can burn a bare body quickly.
- bare body in public
- In some countries, showing a bare body in public is against the law.
Synonyms and how they differ
- naked body
- More common and slightly more direct; 'bare body' can sound more neutral or artistic.
- unclothed body
- More formal and often used in medical or official contexts.
Opposites
Word family
- bare adjective
- Without covering or clothes.
- bareness noun
- The state of being bare or uncovered.
Commonly confused: bare body or bear body?
bare body vs bear body
Not a common phrase, but 'bear' is an animal; 'bare' means uncovered.
Practice
Choose the sentence that uses 'bare body' correctly.
Choose one answer.
Option 0 uses 'bare body' to mean an uncovered body. Option 1 confuses 'bare' with 'barrel' or 'bear'. Option 2 uses 'body' to mean a vehicle's main structure, not a person. Option 3 uses 'bare' as a verb, which is wrong here.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “bare body”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.