If someone does something with their bare hands, they do it without using any weapons or tools. Police believe the killer punched her to death with his bare hands Rescuers were using their bare hands to reach the trapped miners
If you bare something, you uncover it and show it. Walsh bared his teeth in a grin
If you lay bare something or someone, you reveal or expose them. No one wants to expose themselves, lay their feelings bare. A past tense of bear
If a part of your body is bare, it is not covered by any clothing. She was wearing only a thin robe over a flimsy nightdress, and her feet were bare She had bare arms and a bare neck
providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"