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"bare" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often uncovered (9 letters).
Definitions
lacking embellishment or ornamentation
Word origin
From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”).
Used in a sentence
“a bare majority”
“Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of life, but traffic gives us a great variety of what is useful”
“"I refuse to show myself out of doors in my bare feet," the Centipede said. "I have to get my boots on again first."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Without covering”4 letters
02“Uncovered”4 letters
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