verb To make the sharp, loud vocal sound typical of dogs.
- The dog barked wildly at the mail carrier.
- Our neighbor's puppy barks whenever someone walks past the garden gate.
- Did you hear the dog barking in the night?
verb To speak in a sharp, loud, commanding tone.
- The sergeant barked orders at the new recruits.
- The manager barked at the waiter to hurry up with the order.
- Don't bark at me like that, I'm only trying to help!
noun The tough outer covering of a tree's trunk and branches.
- The bark of the old oak was rough and deeply grooved.
- Beetles had burrowed under the loose bark of the fallen branch.
- Children rubbed the rough bark of the tree with crayons and paper.
noun The sharp sound a dog makes.
- His bark was worse than his bite.
- We heard a loud bark from behind the fence and stopped walking.
- The puppy's high little bark made everyone in the kitchen laugh.
