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Definition of bark noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

bark

noun

NAmE//bɑrk//

[uncountable, countable]

1the outer covering of a tree

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2the short loud sound made by dogs and some other animals

3a short loud sound made by a gun or a voice a bark of laughter

Idioms

somebody's bark is worse than their bite (informal)

used to say that someone is not really as angry or as aggressive as they sound

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