Bare is used with these nouns as the object:
claw, fang, soul, tooth

be, look
remain
leave sth
You shouldn't have left the wires bare.

lay sth, strip sth
The earth had been laid bare.
The walls have been stripped bare.

very
completely, quite
The room was completely bare.

almost, rather

of
The house was almost bare of furniture.

Bare is used with these nouns:
arm, back, belly, bottom, branch, breast, bulb, bum, buttock, chest, concrete, cupboard, detail, dirt, earth, essentials, existence, fact, fist, flesh, floor, floorboard, foot, ground, head, hill, hillside, infinitive, knee, knuckle, larder, leg, limb, majority, metal, minimum, necessity, outline, patch, rock, room, shelf, shoulder, skin, stomach, subsistence, table, thigh, toe, torso, tree, twig, wall, wire