expose
/iks'pouz/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To make something visible or known: To uncover, reveal, or show something that was hidden, secret, or not previously known.
- To leave unprotected: To put someone or something in a situation where they are unprotected from a harmful or dangerous influence, such as weather, danger, or criticism.
- To subject to an experience or influence: To allow someone to experience or be in contact with something, such as art, culture, or an idea.
Usage and Examples
- To reveal or uncover:
- The journalist's article will expose the corruption within the government.
- He lifted the cloth to expose the beautiful sculpture underneath.
- To leave unprotected:
- Don't expose the baby to direct sunlight for too long.
- The broken window exposed the house to the cold wind.
- To subject to an experience:
- Traveling abroad exposes you to different cultures.
- The teacher wants to expose her students to classical music.
Advanced Usage
- "Expose oneself": This phrase can have a literal meaning (to uncover one's body) or a figurative meaning (to put oneself in a vulnerable position).
- The artist exposed himself to criticism by publishing his controversial work.
- (Note: The phrase can also refer to the illegal act of publicly revealing one's genitals.)
- "Expose to the elements": To leave something outside without protection from weather.
- The wooden furniture was exposed to the elements and began to rot.
Variants and Related Words
- Exposure (noun): The state of being exposed.
- Prolonged exposure to loud noise can damage your hearing.
- The scandal led to his public exposure as a fraud.
- Exposé (noun): A report in the media that reveals something shocking or scandalous. (Note: This is a borrowed French word, often written with the accent.)
- The newspaper published an exposé on the company's illegal practices.
Synonyms
- Reveal: To make known something that was secret.
- Uncover: To remove a cover or to discover something hidden.
- Disclose: To make new or secret information known.
- Subject: To cause to undergo or experience something.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Expose as: To reveal someone's true, often negative, nature or actions.
- The investigation exposed him as a liar.
- Expose to: To put someone or something in contact with a particular influence or condition.
- She didn't want to expose her children to violent television shows.
Idioms and Common Phrases
- "Expose a nerve": To touch on a sensitive or painful subject.
- His comment about her past failure really exposed a nerve.
- "Expose to view": To make something able to be seen.
- Clearing the bushes exposed the old foundation to view.
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
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- The physicist debunked the psychic's claims
- expose to light, of photographic film
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- disclose to view as by removing a cover
- The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- uncover your belly
- The man exposed himself in the subway
- 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
- 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
- unwrap the evidence in the murder case
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence
- Expose your students to art
- expose the blanket to sunshine