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EXPOSE

Definition:

1. [noun] the exposure of an impostor or a fraud; "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government"
   Synonyms: unmasking
   
   
2. [verb] expose or make accessible to some action or influence; "Expose your students to art"; "expose the blanket to sunshine"
   
   
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; "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"
   Synonyms: disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out
   
   
4. [verb] 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"
   Synonyms: exhibit, display
   
   
5. [verb] remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body; "uncover your belly"; "The man exposed himself in the subway"
   Synonyms: uncover
   
   
6. [verb] disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set"
   Synonyms: disclose
   
   
7. [verb] put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
   Synonyms: queer, scupper, endanger, peril
   
   
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"
   Synonyms: debunk
   
   
10. [verb] abandon by leaving out in the open air; "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"; "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned"
    
    

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• muckrake
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• come out of the closet, out, come out
• spring
• betray, bewray
• confide
• leak
• spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
• reveal
• open
• produce, bring forth
• hold up
• bench
• moon
• flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank
• brandish
• model
• model, pose, sit, posture
• pillory, gibbet
• unwrap, undo
• undrape
• unclothe
• bare
• unmask
• unveil
• face
• compromise
• overexpose
• underexpose
• unmask, uncloak

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