Definitions
completely wanting or lacking
Word origin
From Middle English bareyne, from Anglo-Norman baraigne, baraing (“sterile; barren”), of obscure origin; probably from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *baʀ (“bare; barren”), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare”). If so, a doublet of bare.
Used in a sentence
“I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?”
“Forget not, in your speed, Antonius, To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say, The barren, touched in this holy chase, Shake off their sterile curse.”
“The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Infertile”6 letters
02“Unable to produce”6 letters
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