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Expose   /ɪkspˈoʊz/   Listen
Expose

verb
(past & past part. exposed; pres. part. exposing)
1.
Expose or make accessible to some action or influence.  "Expose the blanket to sunshine"
2.
Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.  Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, give away, let on, let out, reveal, unwrap.  "The actress won't reveal how old she is" , "Bring out the truth" , "He broke the news to her" , "Unwrap the evidence in the murder case"
3.
To show, make visible or apparent.  Synonyms: display, exhibit.  "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?" , "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship"
4.
Remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body.  Synonym: uncover.  "The man exposed himself in the subway"
5.
Disclose to view as by removing a cover.  Synonym: disclose.
6.
Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position.  Synonyms: endanger, peril, queer, scupper.
7.
Expose to light, of photographic film.
8.
Expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas.  Synonym: debunk.
9.
Abandon by leaving out in the open air.  "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned"
noun
1.
The exposure of an impostor or a fraud.  Synonym: unmasking.



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"Expose" Quotes from Famous Books



... Australia, or Asia, or somewhere, and that one went over to it on a bridge. This might turn out to be incorrect; and even if correct, it would not furnish matter enough for the purpose at the dinner, and I should expose my College to shame before my guest; he would see that I, a member of the Faculty of the first University in America, was wholly ignorant of his country, and he would go away and tell this, and laugh at it. The thought of it ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... escape the wrath of Jehovah only by heartfelt repentance. And yet, according to the ecclesiastics with whom we have to do, the Lord of these prophets passed by in silence just such enormities as he commanded them to expose and denounce! Every where, he came in contact with slavery in its worst forms—"horrible cruelties" forced themselves upon his notice; but not a word of rebuke or warning did he utter. He saw "a boy given for a harlot, and a girl sold for wine, that they might drink,"[C] without ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... accusations; for under no other supposition is it possible to understand their allusions." But the mere fact that Mrs. Leigh remained on terms of intimacy and affection with her brother, when he was under the ban of society, would expose her to slander and injurious comment, "peril dreaded most in female eyes;" whereas to other calumnies, if such there were, there could be no other reference but silence, or an ecstasy ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... broken off his very questionable acquaintance with her before marrying Violet Wood. Surely he would not allow his father to be so dangerously deceived in the person he had invited to his house—to the society of his granddaughter. He would unmask her, even though in doing so he should expose himself. ...
— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... the cotton pods are gathered, the remaining stems and branches should be cleared away without loss of time, and the ground carefully ploughed up, to expose a new surface to the air and renew ...
— Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey thr • John Barrow


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