Expose

Quick meaning: Expose is a verb meaning (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).

Meaning

(transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
2. (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
3. (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
4. To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.

Example Sentences

This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.

In the OO world, the word is to hide the structure of the data, and expose only functionality. OO designers expose an object to the world in terms of the services it provides.

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.

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Word Forms

• exposes
• exposing
• exposed
• exposest
• exposedst
• exposeth

Synonyms for expose

Depending on context, synonyms include bewray, doff, undress, bare, nake, reveal.

Antonyms for expose

Common opposites include cover.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disclose, discover, divulge, let out, uncover, declare.

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