Expose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To subject or allow to be subjected to an action, influence, or condition: exposed themselves to disease; exposed their children to classical music.
  • v. To subject (a photographic film, for example) to the action of light.
  • v. To deprive of shelter or protection; lay open to danger or harm: troops that were exposed to gunfire.
  • v. To make visible: Cleaning exposed the grain of the wood. See Synonyms at show.
  • v. To make known (something discreditable).
  • v. To reveal the guilt or wrongdoing of: expose a criminal.
  • v. To engage in indecent exposure of (oneself).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to uncover, make visible, bring to daylight, introduce to
  • v. to subject photographic film to light thus ruining it or taking a picture if controlled
  • v. to abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display
  • v. To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable
  • v. To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like.
  • v. To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To place or set forth so as to be seen or known; lay open to view; lay bare; uncover; reveal: as, to expose a thing to the light; to expose a secret.
  • To place on view; exhibit; show: as, to expose goods for sale.
  • To present to the action or influence of something: as, in photography, to expose a sensitized plate to the action of the actinic rays of light.
  • To place or leave in an unprotected place or state; specifically, to abandon to chance in an open or unprotected place: as, among the ancient Greeks it was not uncommon for parents to expose their children.
  • To place in the way, as of something which it would be better to avoid; subject, as to some risk; make liable: as, vanity exposes a person to ridicule; the movement exposed him to the danger of a raking fire in his flanks.
  • To make known the actions or character of; reveal the secret or secrets of; lay open to comment, ridicule, reprehension, or the like, by some revelation: as, to expose a hypocrite or a rogue; to expose an impostor.
  • To expound, as a theory.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. expose to light, of photographic film
  • v. expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
  • v. abandon by leaving out in the open air
  • v. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
  • v. remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
  • v. disclose to view as by removing a cover
  • v. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
  • v. expose or make accessible to some action or influence
  • v. to show, make visible or apparent
  • n. the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
  • Verb Form
    exposed    exposes    exposing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    desert    desolate    forsake    abandon    exposure   
    Hyponym
    unwrap    undo    unclothe    undrape    unveil    unmask    bare   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    discover   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bose    Brose    Goes    Joes    Jos    Mose    Rose    Stavros    arose    bestows   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    boit