Expose
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊz
Origin
From Middle French exposer ("to lay open, set forth"), from Latin expÅnÅ ("set forth"), with contamination from poser ("to lay, place"). The Latin term is also the origin of English expound, via Old French espondre ("to set forth, explain").
Full definition of expose
Verb
- (to reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to)(transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
- 2013-06-07, Gary Younge, Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, 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)(transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
- (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
- 1893, Fridtjof Nansen, , :This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.
Synonyms
- (to reveal hidden aspect of one's character) bewray