expose

Nouns

  • (n) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
    • he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government
    unmasking,

Verbs

  • (v) expose or make accessible to some action or influence
    • Expose your students to art
    • expose the blanket to sunshine
  • (v) 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
    disclose, divulge, let on, give away, let out, reveal, unwrap, discover, bring out, break,
  • (v) 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
    display, exhibit,
  • (v) remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
    • uncover your belly
    • The man exposed himself in the subway
    uncover,
  • (v) disclose to view as by removing a cover
    • The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set
    disclose,
  • (v) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position endanger, peril, queer, scupper,
  • (v) expose to light, of photographic film
  • (v) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
    • The physicist debunked the psychic's claims
    debunk,
  • (v) abandon by leaving out in the open air
    • The infant was exposed by the teenage mother
    • After Christmas, many pets get abandoned

Synonyms

unmasking disclose divulge let on give away let out reveal unwrap discover bring out break display exhibit uncover endanger peril queer scupper debunk

Antonyms

cover

Words of close approximity

export
exposed