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Definition of Expose

1. Verb. Expose or make accessible to some action or influence. "Expose the blanket to sunshine"

2. Noun. The exposure of an impostor or a fraud. "He published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government"

3. Verb. Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret. "They expose that there was a traffic accident "; "Unwrap the evidence in the murder case"

4. Verb. To show, make visible or apparent. "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship"

5. Verb. Remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body. "The man exposed himself in the subway"

6. Verb. Disclose to view as by removing a cover. "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set"

7. Verb. Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position.

8. Verb. Expose to light, of photographic film.

9. Verb. Expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas. "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims"

10. Verb. Abandon by leaving out in the open air. "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned"

Definition of Expose

1. 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.

Definition of Expose

1. Verb. (transitive) to uncover, make visible, bring to daylight, introduce to ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) to subject photographic film to light thus ruining it or taking a picture if controlled ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) to abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness ¹

4. Noun. publication of some disreputable facts ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Expose

1. to lay open to view [v -POSED, -POSING, -POSES]

Medical Definition of Expose

1. To perform or undergo exposure. Origin: O. Fr. Exposer, fr. L. Ex-pono, pp. Ex-positum, to set out, expose (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expose

exportability exportable exportation exportations exported exporter exporters exportin exporting exportins

exports expos exposable exposal exposals expose (current term) expose oneself exposed exposed pulp exposedly

exposedness exposeome exposer exposers exposes exposing exposit exposited expositing exposition

Literary usage of Expose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"It is best to expose two kinds of paper, selected according to the season, so that, in case the amount of dew is too great to be indicated by one sheet, ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... task for using the expression' take a drive,' she treated him ' with an hauteur to which he would not again expose himself (Fifty Years' Recollections ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... they were, therefore, unwilling to expose the Weakness of theire King, who was esily imposed uppon by his Favourites, for compassing their own private ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... nor could they suppress a rising murmur, that the haughty emperor should thus expose to public ignominy the person of a Roman and a magistrate.^! ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1883)
"This muscle must be removed and the pterygoid attachment of the Superior constrictor dissected away, in order to expose the next muscle. ..."

6. Transactions by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, Institution of Public Health Engineers (Great Britain) (1890)
"METHODS OF PRESERVING TIMBER IN SITUATIONS WHICH expose IT TO DECAY. BY JAMES FRANCIS, LOWELL, MASS. The perishable nature of wood, especially when placed ..."

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