Expose

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Expose \Ex*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exposed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Exposing}.] [F. exposer; pref. ex- (L. ex out)+poser to
     place. See {Pose}, v. t.]
     1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to
        show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose
        pictures to public inspection.


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              Those who seek truth only, freely expose their
              principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
              examined.                             --Locke.
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     2. 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; as, to
        expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold,
        insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to
        destruction or defeat.
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              Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. --Shak.
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     3. 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; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor.
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              You only expose the follies of men, without
              arraigning their vices.               --Dryden.
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     4. To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to
        lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making
        public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat,
        liar, or hypocrite.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Expos'e \Ex`po`s['e]"\, n. [F., prop. p. p. of exposer. See
     {Expose}, v. t.]
     A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or
     revelation, of something which some one wished to keep
     concealed.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  expose
       n : the exposure of an impostor or a fraud; "he published an
           expose of the graft and corruption in city government"
           [syn: {unmasking}]
       v 1: expose or make accessible to some action or influence;
            "Expose your students to art"; "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; "The auction house would not disclose the price at
          which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal
          how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news
          to her" [syn: {disclose}, {let on}, {bring out}, {reveal},
           {discover}, {divulge}, {impart}, {break}, {give away}, {let
          out}]
       3: to show, make visible or apparent; "The Metropolitan Museum
          is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you
          show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"; "National
          leaders will have to display the highest skills of
          statesmanship" [syn: {exhibit}, {display}]
       4: remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body;
          "uncover your belly"; "The man exposed himself in the
          subway" [syn: {uncover}] [ant: {cover}]
       5: disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose
          to disclose a stunning set" [syn: {disclose}]
       6: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
          [syn: {queer}, {scupper}, {endanger}, {peril}]
       7: expose to light, of photographic film
       8: expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false
          claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's
          claims" [syn: {debunk}]
       9: abandon by leaving out in the open air; "The infant was
          exposed by the teenage mother"; "After Christmas, many
          pets get abandoned"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  212 Moby Thesaurus words for "expose":
     advertise, air, apocalypse, attaint, awaken, bare, baring, belie,
     bespatter, betray, blacken, blot, blow sky-high, blow up,
     blow upon, brand, brandish, break the seal, break the spell,
     bring to light, broadcast, burst the bubble, censure, clear,
     compromise, construction, correct, debunk, defame, defile, deflate,
     denudate, denude, deobstruct, develop, dig up, disabuse,
     disappoint, disapprove, disclose, disclosing, disclosure,
     disconfirm, disconfirmation, discover, discovering, discovery,
     discredit, disenchant, disillude, disillusion, disillusionize,
     disinter, dismask, disparage, display, disport, disproof,
     disproval, disprove, disproving, divest, divulge, draw the veil,
     encounter danger, endanger, enlighten, excavate, exegesis, exhibit,
     exhume, explication, explode, explosion, expose to infamy,
     exposition, exposure, ferret out, fish up, flash, flaunt, fleece,
     free, gamble, gamble with, gibbet, hang in effigy, hazard, impart,
     imperil, incur danger, interpretation, invalidate, invalidation,
     jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, lay bare, lay open, laying bare,
     leak, let daylight in, let down easy, let in on, let out,
     make known, manifest, manifestation, negate, negation, negative,
     open, open up, parade, patefaction, patefy, peril, pillory, pluck,
     present, prick the bubble, prove the contrary, publish, puncture,
     put in danger, put in jeopardy, put in writing, put straight,
     raise the curtain, redargution, reductio ad absurdum, remove,
     removing the veil, reprimand, reveal, revealing, revealment,
     revelation, risk, root up, set right, set straight, shear, show,
     show off, show up, showing up, showup, slur, smear, soil, stain,
     stigmatize, strip, strip bare, stripping, subject, subject to,
     sully, taint, tarnish, tell the truth, trot out, turn up,
     unblindfold, unblock, uncase, uncharm, unclench, uncloak,
     uncloaking, unclog, unclothe, unclutch, uncork, uncover,
     uncovering, uncurtain, undeceive, undercut, undo, undrape, undress,
     unearth, unfold, unfolding, unfoldment, unfoul, unfurl, unkennel,
     unlatch, unlock, unmask, unmasking, unpack, unplug, unroll,
     unscreen, unseal, unsheathe, unshroud, unshut, unspell, unstop,
     unveil, unveiling, unwrap, unwrapping, ventilate, vilify, wake up,
     worm out