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. 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.

2. Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid:

   Americans seem to be fed up with Washington, and they're looking for somebody who speaks with the 'bark off,' as we say in New Hampshire. And I think Christie does that.

3. 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.

4. Michael Cohen:

   I think the pressure of the job is much more than what President Donald Trump thought it was going to be, it's not like the Trump Organization where President Donald Trump would bark out orders, and people would blindly follow what President Donald Trump wanted done. There's a system here -- President Donald Trump doesn't understand the system.

5. Robert Cyglicki:

   An attempt to fight the bark beetle with a chainsaw and an ax will bring more damage than benefits.