expose

Noun

• the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
  • he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government
    

Verb

• abandon by leaving out in the open air
  • The infant was exposed by the teenage mother
    
  • After Christmas, many pets get abandoned
    

• expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
  • The physicist debunked the psychic's claims
    

• expose to light, of photographic film

• put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

• disclose to view as by removing a cover
  • The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set
    

• remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
  • uncover your belly
    
  • The man exposed himself in the subway
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• expose or make accessible to some action or influence
  • Expose your students to art
    
  • expose the blanket to sunshine
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  unmasking , debunk , queer , scupper , endanger , peril , disclose , uncover , exhibit , display