Expose : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Expose	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Expose
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
expose n the exposure of an impostor or a fraud; "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government" Synonym(s): expose, unmasking v 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; "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" Synonym(s): unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out 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" Synonym(s): expose, exhibit, display remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body; "uncover your belly"; "The man exposed himself in the subway" Synonym(s): uncover, expose Antonym(s): cover disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set" Synonym(s): disclose, expose put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position Synonym(s): queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril expose to light, of photographic film expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims" Synonym(s): debunk, expose abandon by leaving out in the open air; "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"; "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Expose \Expose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exposed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Exposing}.] [F. exposer; pref. ex- (L. ex out)+poser to place. See {Pose}, v. t.] 1. 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. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them examined. --Locke. 2. To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. --Shak. 3. To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor. You only expose the follies of men, without arraigning their vices. --Dryden. 4. To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite.