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Search phrase: bare-gnawn

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King LearKL V.iii.120By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit;By Treasons tooth: bare-gnawne, and Canker-bit,

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baldbare-headed [as a sign of respect]
baremere, simple
barethreadbare, shabby, ragged
bareworthless, wretched; or: barefaced, shameless
bareunsheathed, exposed
bareunprotected, defenceless, without covering
barebareness, unadorned state
baregaunt, lean, needy
bareshave, trim
bare-boneskinny person, fleshless one
bare-bonedlike a skeleton, fleshless
bare-gnawntotally consumed, worn away to nothing
baringremoval, shaving off
barkedstripped, peeled bare, destroyed
barrennessarea [of skin] worn dry and bare
coldempty, bare, lacking life
grinbare the teeth, grimace, snarl
nakedbare, austere, unfurnished
polledshorn, cleared, stripped bare
unbarbeduncovered, unprotected, bare
unbonnetedbare-headed; with all modesty
unbonnetedbare-headed; recklessly
uncoveredbare-headed, with hat in hand [in respect]
unshrubbedbare, empty, treeless

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barecold
bareunbarbed
bareunshrubbed
barenaked
bare the teethgrin
bare, peeledbarked
bare, strippedpolled
bare-headeduncovered
bare-headedbald
bare-headedunbonneted
bare-headedunbonneted
peeled barebarked
stripped barepolled
teeth, bare thegrin

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