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BARING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does baring mean?
• BARING (noun)
The noun BARING has 1 sense:
1. the removal of covering
Familiarity information: BARING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The removal of covering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
baring; denudation; husking; stripping; uncovering
Hypernyms ("baring" is a kind of...):
remotion; removal (the act of removing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "baring"):
deforestation; disforestation (the removal of trees)
cornhusking (the act of removing the husks from ears of corn)
Context examples
She had snarled as she sprang away, baring her white fangs to their roots, all her wistfulness vanishing, being replaced by a carnivorous malignity that made him shudder.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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