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bare knuckled

bare knuckled is the simple past and past participle of bare knuckle.

bare knuckled is the alternative form of bare-knuckled.

Meaning of bare knuckle

Adjective

bare knuckle (comparative more bare knuckle, superlative most bare knuckle)

  1. Without boxing gloves
    • As a former four-time bare knuckle UFC veteran, and MMA veteran Hall of Fame coach of the year, I know they are effective and valuable to any person as a form of self defense, whether experienced or novice.2008, Waysun "Johnny" Tsai, Paula Lazarz, Practical Kung-Fu Street Defense, →ISBN
  2. Ruthlessly competitive
    • But aggressive management maneuvers like that were missing from the paper's speculations (10/25/95) about labor's return to "bare knuckle tactics."1996, Extra! - Volumes 9-10, page 6

Meaning of bare-knuckled

Adjective

bare-knuckled (comparative more bare-knuckled, superlative most bare-knuckled)

  1. Without boxing gloves
    • Frank Slavin, who fought both bare-knuckled and gloved bouts, was the heavyweight champion of Australia and boxed in the United States, Canada and England.2000, Murray Phillips, From Sidelines to Centre Field, →ISBN
  2. Ruthlessly competitive
    • His return – armed with a set peppered with Clash classics such as 'London Calling' and 'White Man In Hammersmith Palais' – had the old bare-knuckled punks from 1977 literally in tears.1999, Sue Welfare, Off the Record, →ISBN, page 279

Forms of bare knuckled

comparativemore bare knuckled
superlativemost bare knuckled

Questions about bare knuckled

What is bare knuckled the simple past and past participle of?
Bare knuckled is the simple past and past participle of bare knuckle.

Words near bare knuckled in the dictionary

  1. bare infinitive
  2. bare infinitives
  3. bare it all
  4. bare king
  5. bare knuckle
  6. bare knuckled
  7. bare knuckles
  8. bare knuckling
  9. bare license
  10. bare licenses
  11. bare metal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bare knuckled (page history and authors); bare knuckle (page history and authors); bare-knuckled (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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