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. Dan Nufer:

   I understood the potential risks. And I was fine with it, from start to finish, with TICs, I found the bark was much worse than the bite.

2. John Webster, The White Devil (1612):

   Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

3. Tom Waits:

   I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.

4. La Russa:

   He’s got a significant bone bruise there, but the X-ray was negative so it’s just real sore. We’ll see how he feels tomorrow, it takes a while for it to bark. He slid, he felt it, but it was sore already. But it’s just like if something’s sore, you hit it again, it hurts again. If it was going to stiffen up more, that’s why sometimes you get a guy out right away and put ice on it.

5. Dave Barry:

   Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.