Usually means: Verb without "to"; base form.
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  1. bare infinitive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. bare infinitive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. bare infinitive: Wiktionary
  4. bare infinitive: Dictionary.com
  5. Bare infinitive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. bare infinitive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. bare infinitive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Definitions from Wiktionary (bare infinitive)

noun:  (grammar) The infinitive form of an English verb without the particle to; a comparable infinitive in other Germanic languages, e.g. a German infinitive without a preceding "zu", or a Swedish one without a preceding "att".

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