stark
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7.9
- adverb
- /stɑrk/
- Literature
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completamente
- I found myself standing up on a ledge to a window stark naked with nothing but a headdress, screaming, "My God help me.
- stark naked
Examples
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Before I could answer, he jumped into the pool stark naked and swam toward me.
Fiction book (1990) -
How stark your conclusions were your your your insights were.
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Now if I can run through the streets stark naked with these wee, tiny legs, you can smell a dog in a wagon!
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- Maggie... ...came stumbling out of the woods stark naked.
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Marnie Burke was found this morning wandering around the street stark naked, laughing her ass off, flipped out.
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Could it be that movie stars now routinely appeared in films stark naked?
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Jean-Michel was naked and went to open the door stark naked.
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Before I could answer, he jumped into the pool stark naked and swam toward me.
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Etymology
Stark came from old words like stearc meaning 'strong', and that strong idea grew into the sense of 'completely' in phrases like 'stark naked'. So when stark is used as an adverb it means 'completely' or 'totally'.