Expose
[ɪk'spəʊz;ek-] or [ɪk'spoz]
Definition
(noun.) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud; 'he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government'.
(verb.) abandon by leaving out in the open air; 'The infant was exposed by the teenage mother'; 'After Christmas, many pets get abandoned'.
(verb.) expose or make accessible to some action or influence; 'Expose your students to art'; 'expose the blanket to sunshine'.
(verb.) expose to light, of photographic film.
(verb.) 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'.
Typist: Murray--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Disclose, uncover, detect, descry, lay open, make bare, show up, bring to light.[2]. Exhibit, hold up to view.[3]. Subject, make liable.[4]. Endanger, jeopardize, put in danger, put in peril.
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Definition
v.t. to lay forth to view: to deprive of cover protection or shelter: to make bare: to abandon (an infant): to explain: to make liable to: to disclose: to show up.—ns. Expos (eks-pō-zā′) an exposing: a shameful showing up: a formal recital or exposition; Expos′edness the act of exposing: the state of being exposed; Expos′er; Exposi′tion act of exposing: a setting out to public view: the abandonment of a child: a public exhibition: act of expounding or laying open of the meaning of an author: explanation: commentary.—adj. Expos′itive serving to expose or explain: explanatory: exegetical.—n. Expos′itor one who or that which expounds: an interpreter:—fem. Expos′itress.—adj. Expos′itory serving to explain: explanatory.—n. Expō′sure (Shak. Expos′ture) act of laying open or bare: act of showing up an evil: state of being laid bare: openness to danger: position with regard to the sun influence of climate &c.
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Examples
- Now act as you please: write and contradict my assertion--expose my falsehood as soon as you like. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Don't you expose it to a good deal of excitement, sir? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I expose the horses all the time for the cause. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I had no wish to expose to ridicule the representative of so many hours of laborious thought. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- To divide it was to ruin it, and to expose every part of it to be oppressed and swallowed up by the incursions of its neighbours. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I shall do something to expose myself. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Are we to be exposed to this unnatural conduct every moment of our lives? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She was exposed to every stare, she passed on through a stretch of torment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The clocks at the corresponding stations were set exactly together, so that the same letter was exposed to view at each instrument at the same instant. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He hated to think of May Welland's being exposed to the influence of a young woman so careless of the dictates of Taste. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The bodies of the murdered were then brought out and exposed in the street, till a hole could be made in the earth to receive and cover them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The object now is subjected to the blast, and as the sand will not penetrate a softened material sufficient to abrade a surface beneath, the exposed portions alone will be cut away. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The annexed woodcuts show the figure of this Revolver, with the working parts round the lock exposed to view, together with the shape of the revolving chambered breech. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The daguerreotype was made on a thin sheet of copper, silver plated on one side, polished to a high degree of brilliancy, and made sensitive by exposing it to the fumes of iodine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Have I not carefully avoided exposing myself to the odium of committing unnecessary crime? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This process is called _puddling_, and consists in exposing the molten metal to an oxidizing current of flame and air. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- And Gudrun, sitting immediately behind him, felt a sort of ironic pleasure in thus exposing him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Darcy only smiled; and the general pause which ensued made Elizabeth tremble lest her mother should be exposing herself again. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- See ye how dexterously they avail themselves of every cover which a tree or bush affords, and shun exposing themselves to the shot of our cross-bows? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- If a person should at any time exceed in it, he can easily reform without exposing himself to the censure of the public. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is usual to fix the opaque shade, which alternately covers and exposes the two magic lanterns, on to a central pin, so that it may be moved vertically up or down. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The shade is so arranged, that in raising the end to cover the lens of one lantern, the farther end descends, and exposes, in an equal degree, the other lens. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But he may be left in the position which exposes him later on to influences which will lead him to do even worse things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In his method of doing so, he covers the steel plate with a solution of isinglass and bichromate of potass, and placing a collodion negative picture upon it, he exposes it to the action of light. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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