Exposed

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]:

  exposed \exposed\ adj.
     1. with no protection or shield; as, the exposed northeast
        frontier.
  
     Syn: open.
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     2. visible due to absence of clothing at that point; -- of
        body parts.
  
     Syn: uncovered, bare.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  exposed
       adj 1: with no protection or shield; "the exposed northeast
              frontier"; "open to the weather"; "an open wound"
              [syn: {open}]
       2: not covered with clothing; "her exposed breast" [syn: {uncovered}]

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

  129 Moby Thesaurus words for "exposed":
     aerial, aeriform, aery, airish, airlike, airy, alfresco,
     answerable for, apparent, apt to, atmospheric, bald, bare, bared,
     beholdable, belied, bleak, blown, breezy, capable of, clear,
     cleared, confounded, confuted, deflated, denied, denudated,
     denuded, dependent on, detectable, discarded, discernible,
     disclosed, discredited, dismissed, disproved, disputed, divested,
     ethereal, evident, exploded, exposed to, exposed to view, free,
     hanging out, impugned, in danger of, in evidence, in full view,
     in plain sight, in view, incident to, insight, invalidated,
     laid bare, liable, liable to, light, likely, likely to, manifest,
     naked, naked to, negated, negatived, nonimmune, noticeable,
     obliged to, obnoxious, observable, open, open as day, open to,
     open to all, open to view, open-air, outcropping, overt,
     overthrown, overturned, peeled, perceivable, perceptible,
     pneumatic, prone, prone to, punctured, raw, ready for,
     recognizable, refuted, rejected, responsible for, revealed, roomy,
     seeable, sensitive, showing, shown up, standing to, stripped,
     subject, subject to, susceptible, susceptive to, threatened,
     to be seen, tropospheric, unclassified, unclogged, unclosed,
     unclouded, unconcealed, uncovered, undisguised, unhidden,
     unobstructed, unrestricted, unstopped, unveiled, upset, viewable,
     visible, visual, wide-open, windblown, windswept, within range of,
     witnessable