expose

Meanings

• the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
  • "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government"
• 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
• to show, make visible or apparent
• remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
  • "The man exposed himself in the subway"
• disclose to view as by removing a cover
• put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
• expose to light, of photographic film
• expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
• abandon by leaving out in the open air
  • "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"

Synonyms

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