Bare and Dress

Bare

Bare verb - To make known (as information previously kept secret).

Dress is an antonym for bare.

Nearby Words: barely, bared, bareness

Dress

Dress verb - To make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming.
Usage example: let's dress up the room with some greenery for the holiday party

Bare is an antonym for dress in topics: groom, put on clothing, cover a wound.

Nearby Words: dressed, dressing, dressy, dresser, dressage

Common collocations

girl bare girl dress girl

Both words in one sentence

  • Stripperiffic Chizetan princesses Tarta and Tatra bare their midriffs and Show Some Leg, and in the anime they dress Umi in similar clothes, then Tatra does a Battle Strip.
    Source: Stripperiffic
  • Anime / Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie Bare Your Midriff: Sera during the first half of the movie shows off her middle, but not so much after she dons her dress later.
  • Belly Dancer The Chipettes dress like this in The Chipmunk Adventure, given that their costumes bare their midriffs.
    Source: Belly Dancer
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