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IPA transcription: [ɪks'poʊz]
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Noun
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the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
“he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government”
Verb
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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”
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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”
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expose or make accessible to some action or influence
“Expose your students to art”
“expose the blanket to sunshine”
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disclose to view as by removing a cover
“The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set”
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remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
“uncover your belly”
“The man exposed himself in the subway”
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put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
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expose to light, of photographic film
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expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
“The physicist debunked the psychic's claims”
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abandon by leaving out in the open air
“The infant was exposed by the teenage mother”
“After Christmas, many pets get abandoned”
Usage examples
- He recognizes their trick, too late, and threatens to expose them.
- For example, the hawk moths form an exposed pupa which is underground.
- She went undercover to expose the shortcomings of the shelter system.
- Custom deployment enables you to customize resources that should be exposed as Web services.
- This would expose photographic plates and cause fluorescence.
- Thanks to reverse port tunneling, I can expose this HTTP server running on Windows to my Linux machine.
- All of the organs are exposed in our exhibition hall.
- I also use standard port forwarding when I want to expose servers running on my Linux machine.
- Before Giuliani's ultimatum, financial improprieties and mafia involvement had been exposed.
- Carrier's position became dangerously exposed.