bark

bark
1 verb
1 (I) to make the short, loud sound that dogs and some other animals make
(+ at): The dog always barks at strangers.
2 also bark out (T) to say something quickly in a loud voice: "Listen up!" the teacher barked.
3 bark up the wrong tree informal to have a wrong idea, especially about how to get a particular result: You're barking up the wrong tree if you think Sam can help you.
4 bark at the moon AmE informal to worry and complain about something that you cannot change, and that is not very important
5 (T) to rub the skin off your knee, elbow etc by falling or knocking against something: I stumbled, barking my shins painfully against the step.
2 noun (C, U)
1 the sharp, loud sound made by a dog
2 the outer covering of a tree
3 a loud sound or voice: the bark of the guns
4 sb's bark is worse than their bite used to say that although someone talks in an angry way they would not behave violently
5 literary barque

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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