Thesaurus: expose

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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.
2. v. t. 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.
3. v. t. 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.
4. v. t. 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.
5. v. t. A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.
6. n. the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
7. v. expose or make accessible to some action or influence
8. 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
9. v. to show, make visible or apparent
10. v. remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
11. v. reveal to view as by removing a cover
12. v. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position