EXPOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expose mean? 

• EXPOSE (noun)
  The noun EXPOSE has 1 sense:

1. the exposure of an impostor or a fraud

  Familiarity information: EXPOSE used as a noun is very rare.

• EXPOSE (verb)
  The verb EXPOSE has 9 senses:

1. expose or make accessible to some action or influence

2. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

3. to show, make visible or apparent

4. remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body

5. reveal to view as by removing a cover

6. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

7. expose to light, of photographic film

8. expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas

9. abandon by leaving out in the open air

  Familiarity information: EXPOSE used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The exposure of an impostor or a fraud

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

expose; unmasking

Context example:

he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government

Hypernyms ("expose" is a kind of...):

exposure (the disclosure of something secret)

Derivation:

expose (expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas)

expose (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)

• EXPOSE (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expose or make accessible to some action or influence

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

expose the blanket to sunshine

Hypernyms (to "expose" is one way to...):

subject (cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expose"):

ventilate (expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage)

insolate; solarise; solarize; sun (expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun)

aerate; air; air out (expose to fresh air)

overexpose (expose excessively)

underexpose (expose insufficiently)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

exposure (the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience)

exposure (vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap

Context example:

The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings

Hypernyms (to "expose" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Cause:

break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)

Verb group:

break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expose"):

blackwash (bring (information) out of concealment)

muckrake (explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures)

blow (cause to be revealed and jeopardized)

out (reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle)

come out; come out of the closet; out (to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality)

spring (produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly)

betray; bewray (reveal unintentionally)

confide (reveal in private; tell confidentially)

leak (tell anonymously)

babble; babble out; blab; blab out; let the cat out of the bag; peach; sing; spill the beans; talk; tattle (divulge confidential information or secrets)

reveal (disclose directly or through prophets)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

expose (the exposure of an impostor or a fraud)

exposure (the disclosure of something secret)

Sense 3

Meaning:

To show, make visible or apparent

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

display; exhibit; expose

Context example:

National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship

Hypernyms (to "expose" is one way to...):

show (make visible or noticeable)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expose"):

open (display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer)

bring forth; produce (bring out for display)

hold up (hold up something as an example; hold up one's achievements for admiration)

bench (exhibit on a bench)

moon (expose one's buttocks to)

flash; flaunt; ostentate; show off; swank (display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously)

brandish (exhibit aggressively)

model (display (clothes) as a mannequin)

model; pose; posture; sit (assume a posture as for artistic purposes)

gibbet; pillory (expose to ridicule or public scorn)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

exposure (presentation to view in an open or public manner)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

expose; uncover

Context example:

The man exposed himself in the subway

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expose"):

unveil (remove the veil from)

unmask (take the mask off)

bare (lay bare)

undrape (strip something of drapery)

undo; unwrap (remove the outer cover or wrapping of)

unclothe (take the covers off)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Reveal to view as by removing a cover

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

disclose; expose; uncover

Context example:

The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set

Hypernyms (to "expose" is one way to...):

bring out; reveal; unveil (make visible)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expose"):

face (turn so as to expose the face)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

exposure (presentation to view in an open or public manner)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

endanger; expose; peril; queer; scupper

Hypernyms (to "expose" is one way to...):

affect; bear on; bear upon; impact; touch; touch on (have an effect upon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expose"):

compromise (expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

exposure (the state of being vulnerable or exposed)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Expose to light, of photographic film

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "expose" is one way to...):

subject (cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to)

Domain category:

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expose"):

overexpose (expose to too much light)

underexpose (expose to too little light)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

exposure (the act of exposing film to light)

exposure (the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

debunk; expose

Context example:

The physicist debunked the psychic's claims

Hypernyms (to "expose" is one way to...):

blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; ridicule; roast (subject to laughter or ridicule)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expose"):

uncloak; unmask (reveal the true nature of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

expose (the exposure of an impostor or a fraud)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Abandon by leaving out in the open air

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

After Christmas, many pets get abandoned

Hypernyms (to "expose" is one way to...):

abandon; desert; desolate; forsake (leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

exposure (abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open))

 Context examples 

These risks were in comparison to infants who were either not exposed to tobacco or alcohol during gestation or whose mothers quit tobacco or alcohol use by the end of the first trimester.

(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)

They found that similar to how vaccines work, the dietary RNA activated an immune response that prevented disease and death when hives were later exposed to the live virus.

(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)

Lava lakes directly exposed to space without an atmosphere would create local hot spots of high temperatures, so they are not the best explanation for the Spitzer observations.

(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)

Researchers found significant differences on all those measures between those who breathed clean air and those exposed to pollution levels deemed unsafe.

(The Surprising Link between Air Pollution, Alzheimer’s Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers developed magnetic elastomeric composites that move in different ways when exposed to light.

(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A day later, the memory was first reactivated by re-exposing participants to the feared squares.

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

Rice grown while exposed to carbon dioxide levels expected by the end of this century had lower levels of vitamins, minerals and protein than normal, the results showed.

(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)

“A latent image is formed by exposing a sensitive material in a gel to light. Then, you can develop that latent image into a real image by attaching another material, silver, afterwards.”

(Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An anxiety disorder precipitated by an experience of intense fear or horror while exposed to a traumatic (especially life-threatening) event.

(Acute Stress Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

When exposed to light, aminobenzoic acid (para-aminobenzoic acid or PABA) absorbs UV light and emits excess energy via a photochemical reaction that may cause damage to DNA.

(Aminobenzoic acid, NCI Thesaurus)