[
US
/ɪkˈspoʊz/
]
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.
- Clinicians should refer cocaine-exposed children to early intervention services to attenuate long-term effects.
- It has many kerned letters which are liable to break off at the ends of the lines in an exposed position. The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters
- If he fled, either before or after finding sureties, the borsholder and decennary became liable to inquiry, and were exposed to the penalties of law. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
- 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
