expose
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expose
- /ɪkˈspəʊz/ UK
- /ɪkˈspoʊz/ US
- /ɛkˈspoʊz/ US
Rhymes with -əʊz
Where it comes from
From Middle English exposen, from Old French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). Doublet of expone and expound (via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”)), from the same Latin term.
verb exposes · exposing · exposed · expose
- To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
- To subject photographic film to light, thereby recording an image.
- To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance, such as radiation, a chemical, or any other stress. Residents were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
- To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs. to expose an API
- To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness. This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.
