BARING Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

baring

verb

present participle of bare

as in revealing

to make known (as information previously kept secret) finally bared the secret that she had kept to herself for so long

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Recent Examples of baring Madonna’s breast-baring dress was last displayed at Gaultier’s big retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2015. —

Miles Socha, Footwear News, 26 May 2026 The Blumarine dress was a breast-baring wedding dress that used the corset as a push-up — with nothing covering the chest except mesh. —

Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026 Alcaraz’s smile is wide and unrestrained, baring his teeth and his full lips—features he’s grown into since breaking into tennis as a teenager. —

José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026 Hitting the sweet spot between floor-grazing baggy jeans and calves-baring capris, a subtly cropped pair of jeans shows off your shoes without leaving too much in the cold. —

Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 12 Apr. 2026 The Mallards, whose colors are maroon and gold and whose logo features a male duck angrily baring its fictional teeth, are part of a 51-year old league stretching from Maine to New Mexico, Maryland to Alaska. —

Tris Wykes, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026 Discovering a fang-baring fish-woman (Avery Potemri, a movement artist playing an impressive special effect), Doug tranquilizes the creature and houses it in his bathroom, rejuvenated by his newfound purpose. —

J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Mar. 2025 More recently, Rihanna shared a new Fenty Hair commercial on Instagram, in which she could be seen baring it all in a Savage Fenty thong bodysuit. —

Karen Fratti, People.com, 16 Mar. 2025 But the role requires her to open her life up to the world, baring all her family’s struggle for a shot at the American Dream. —

Glenn Garner, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025

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Advertisement If a good finale ties up a show’s plot and answers crucial questions, then a great one completes character arcs and deepens themes developed across multiple seasons, revealing the intricacy of narrative architecture too subtle to perceive from one week to the next.

— Judy Berman, Time, 29 May 2026
Rumors and proposals are starting to percolate, revealing the steep incline the Nuggets face to remain a championship contender.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 29 May 2026