Synonyms for bark
bɑrkbark

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1. bark2

   Synonyms:
   latrate

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1. barknoun

   tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

   Synonyms:
   barque

2. barknoun

   a noise resembling the bark of a dog

   Synonyms:
   barque

3. bark, barquenoun

   a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts

   Synonyms:
   barque

4. barkverb

   the sound made by a dog

   Synonyms:
   barque

5. barkverb

   speak in an unfriendly tone

   "She barked into the dictaphone"

   Synonyms:
   skin

6. barkverb

   cover with bark

   Synonyms:
   skin

7. bark, skinverb

   remove the bark of a tree

   Synonyms:
   scramble, struggle, peel, clamber, pare, shin, shinny, sputter, skin, scrape

8. barkverb

   make barking sounds

   "The dogs barked at the stranger"

   Synonyms:
   skin

9. barkverb

   tan (a skin) with bark tannins

   Synonyms:
   skin

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Natural Covering
   • Noise
   • Sailing Vessel
   • Talk
   • Tan
   • Utter

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1. woof

   Submitted by Prismati2 on April 10, 2021  

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1. barkverb

   Synonyms:
   yelp

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1. barknoun

   Synonyms:
   cortex

   Associated words:
   cortical, corticate, corticiferous, corticiform, phleophagus, corticose, periderm, liber, decortication, decorticator

2. barkverb

   Synonyms:
   peel, flay, skin, decorticate, bay, yelp, yap

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1. List of paraphrases for "bark":

   rind, birchbark, barking, crust, peel, bowwow, cortex

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How to use bark in a sentence?

1. Charles de LEUSSE:

   Who has dog doesn't bark. (Qui a chien n'aboie pas)

2. Robert McIntyre:

   Nothing is nailed into the tree. So there's a tripod that we strap to the tree and the feet of this tripod are made of neoprene, so they mold to the bark. So once you've taken the step down, there's no sign it was ever up. And it doesn't bruise the tree underneath the bark.

3. Thomas Jefferson:

   I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

4. Jonathan Loar:

   One reason is that Gandharan scrolls, like the one at the Library of Congress, were typically buried in terra cotta jars and interred in a stupa, a dome-shaped structure often containing Buddhist texts or relics, another reason is that the relatively high, arid climate of the Gandharan region helps preserve materials like manuscripts on birch bark.

5. Sam Hodder:

   A giant sequoia that was weakened by drought was then subject to impacts by the bark beetle, which then further weakened the tree and made it more susceptible to mortality from fire.