[
US
/ɪkˈspoʊz/
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VERB
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
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expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
The physicist debunked the psychic's claims - expose to light, of photographic film
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abandon by leaving out in the open air
The infant was exposed by the teenage mother
After Christmas, many pets get abandoned -
to show, make visible or apparent
Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?
National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship
The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month -
remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
uncover your belly
The man exposed himself in the subway -
expose or make accessible to some action or influence
Expose your students to art
expose the blanket to sunshine -
make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
unwrap the evidence in the murder case
he broke the news to her
The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings
bring out the truth
The actress won't reveal how old she is
The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold -
reveal to view as by removing a cover
The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set
NOUN
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the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government
How To Use expose In A Sentence
- Naturally, this makes interpersonal relations, especially with societies unexposed to the advantages of the American lifestyle, a little difficult.
- Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?
- The excruciating embarrassment of finding one's personal peccadillos exposed to public scrutiny makes kiss-and-tell the perfect vengeance-fodder.
- So I expose them to the objective complement and the compellative, and then stand aghast at their behavior when they make all the mistakes that can possibly be made in using a given number of words. Reveries of a Schoolmaster
- The Roman satirists savagely expose the fawning homage heaped upon the childless rich.
- To determine the exact width and thickness of the pieces you'll need, lift up a heat register or threshold and measure the exposed ends of the floorboards.
- Outdoor or extensively reared pigs that may be exposed to wildlife are at a greater risk of contracting trichinellosis from wildlife sources (6). ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds
- The Germans also launched a maladroit effort to entice Mexico into the war, exposed by the Zimmermann telegraph affair.
- After several days of climbing, high on a huge, exposed face of Annapurna, a mountain almost double the height of Mont Blanc, a storm erupted and the two men decided to descend.
- Keep the artichoke in a bowl of water with a lemon squeezed into it, (rather grandly called acidulated water), this stops the heart from blackening when it is exposed.