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lay bare

lay bare verb: to make bare; strip.

Verb

lay bare (third-person singular simple present lays bare, present participle laying bare, simple past and past participle laid bare)

  1. To make bare; strip.
    • And laid those proud roofs bare to Summer's rain—1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LVIII, page 34
    Synonyms:
    crack, open, unseal
  2. (figuratively) To expose to view, reveal, uncover.
    • The central and centralized, imperial governments, guided by the big interests of the country, induced in their unfortunate subjects this last pestilential epidemic of military mania by means of a persistent course of direct and indirect suggestion in which the conditions of normal and abnormal...1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress
    • "This is further proof that ASLEF is willing to negotiate in good faith and modernise our railway. And further proof that the failure of negotiations with the TOCs in England is the responsibility of Transport Secretary Mark Harper, the Department for Transport, and the Rail Delivery Group. That...2023 May 31, Mel Holley, “Network News: ASLEF recommends £71,000 pay deal for TfW drivers”, in RAIL, number 984, page 20
    Synonyms:
    nake

lay bare meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Odia

lay bare in Tamil

திறந்து காண்பி, வெட்டவெளிச்சமாக்கு, வெளிக்காட்டு, வெளிப்படுத்து

lay bare in Urdu

افشا کرنا, بےپردہ کرنا

lay bare in Kannada

ಮುಚ್ಚಿಡದಿರು, ಹೊರಹಾಕು, ಬತ್ತಲೆಮಾಡು, ಯಾವುದನ್ನೂ ಮುಚ್ಚಿಡದಿರು, ಬಹಿರಂಗಪಡಿಸು, ರಟ್ಟುಮಾಡು

lay bare in Odia

to lay bare; exhibit
ଛୋଡ଼ିବା choṛibā

Synonyms of lay bare

Forms of lay bare

third-person singular presentlays bare
present participlelaying bare
past participlelaid bare
pastlaid bare

Questions about lay bare

What does lay bare mean?
Lay bare means to make bare; strip.
What is lay bare in Tamil?
Lay bare in Tamil is திறந்து காண்பி, வெட்டவெளிச்சமாக்கு, வெளிக்காட்டு. See Lay bare meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lay bare?
Lay bare is a verb.
What is the past tense of lay bare?
The past tense of lay bare is laid bare.

Words near lay bare in the dictionary

  1. lay at someone's door
  2. lay at someone's heart
  3. lay away
  4. lay back
  5. lay back and thought of England
  6. lay bare
  7. lay bare one's soul
  8. lay before
  9. lay behind
  10. lay brethren
  11. lay brother

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lay bare (page history and authors); lay bare (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lay bare (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lay bare (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଛୋଡ଼ିବା (Odia) (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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