Arabic English Dictionary

العربية - English

عار in English:

1. bare


Her feet were bare, as was the custom in those days.
1. He beat a bear with bare hands. Two hundred is the bare minimum. 2. She bared her back at the red carpet. He bared his soul to her.
You don't need to take off your shoes. It's too cold to go barefoot.
An infinitive without a 'to' attached is called a bare infinitive.
bare trees
She told how the dog bared its teeth before sinking them into an officer's
Confident as I am that you will not trifle with this appeal, my heart sinks and my hand trembles at the bare thought of such a possibility.
A bare word of criticism makes her nervous.
That would be twenty-seven words instead of four, and while the bare message of the longer statement would be understood, the persuasive force would be lost.
The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.
This, of course, tends to promote bribery, corruption and the creation of ‘fly-by-night' lumber companies which strip the land bare, but vanish when it comes time to re-seed.
we still don't know much beyond the bare information on the flight.
After we sold the sofa, the room looked very bare.
The Jondrettes room was dirty and evil-smelling, unlike Mariuss bare but clean room.
I just did the bare minimum – I read what I had to.

2. shame


Shame on you for getting so flustered. You looked ridiculous.
It's a shame that I had to quit my job just when I was getting the hang of things.
I think it's a shame that some foreign language teachers were able to graduate from college without ever having studied with a native speaker.
Youth is such a priceless commodity that it is a shame to waste it on children.
For shame!
You've brought shame to this family, Cecil.
It would be a shame for a young man to be at loose ends just because he can't get the kind of job he wants.
Recently I've stopped being afraid of "living in shame" and being exposed to "public ridicule".
Shame be to him who thinks evil of it.
What with joy and shame, she blushed to the ears.
Japan's shame, the result of the Pacific War, has not yet faded.
I had rather never have been born than have seen this day of shame.
When Toby made fun of my new haircut I went red with shame.
Shame on you. / What a shame that you did not pass your exams.
In present day Japan, "alchemy" is only used metaphorically; to refer to improper means of making money by politicians or religious hucksters with no morals or shame.