"bare one's breast" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: bares one's breast [present, singular, third-person], baring one's breast [participle, present], bared one's breast [participle, past], bared one's breast [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} bare one's breast (third-person singular simple present bares one's breast, present participle baring one's breast, simple past and past participle bared one's breast)
  1. To make oneself vulnerable.
    Sense id: en-bare_one's_breast-en-verb-wBD0HWVt
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bare, breast. Categories (topical): Emotions Synonyms: bare one's soul, pour one's heart out
    Sense id: en-bare_one's_breast-en-verb-n4sQy~Fb Disambiguation of Emotions: 0 100 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 72 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 19 81 Disambiguation of English predicates: 22 78 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 19 81

Inflected forms

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