Bare and Prove

Bare

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

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Prove and bare are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prove" instead a verb "Bare".

Nearby Words: barely, bared, bareness

Prove verb - To show the existence or truth of by evidence.

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Bare and prove are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bare" instead a verb "Prove".

Nearby Words: proved, proven, proving, provable

life	bare life	prove life
nothing	bare nothing	prove nothing

To prove this point, in the pilot Goliath catches the downstroke of a Viking sword in his bare hand, and though he bleeds some, the cut appears relatively minor compared to the major damage (a bloody stump) that a human being would take from trying something similar.

Source: Western Animation / Gargoyles
In the second Alex Rider book, The Dragon bends a crowbar with her bare hands to prove a point (and that was before she knew who Alex really was).

Source: Barehanded Bar Bending
Beowulf makes a point of killing Grendel with his bare hands without any kind of weapons or armour, just to prove he can.

Source: Cherry Tapping

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