expose
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(verb) expose or make accessible to some action or influence: "Expose your students to art" |
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Related Words: air, air out, overexpose, subject, sun, underexpose |
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(verb) expose to light, of photographic film |
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Related Words: overexpose, subject, underexpose |
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(verb) 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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Synonyms: display, exhibit |
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Related Words: bench, brandish, bring forth, flash, flaunt, gibbet, hold up, model, moon, open, pillory, pose, posture, produce, show, show off, sit, swank |
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(noun) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud; "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government" |
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Synonyms: unmasking |
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Related Words: exposure |
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(verb) expose while ridiculing; esp. of pretentious or false claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims" |
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Synonyms: debunk |
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Related Words: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, uncloak, unmask |
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(verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position |
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Synonyms: endanger, peril, queer, scupper |
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Related Words: affect, bear on, bear upon, compromise, impact, subject, touch, touch on |
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(verb) remove the covering from; "uncover the body" |
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Synonyms: uncover |
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Related Words: bare, unclothe, undrape, unmask, unveil, unwrap |
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(verb) disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set" |
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Synonyms: disclose |
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Related Words: bring out, reveal, uncover, unveil |
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(verb) 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 aution 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" |
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Synonyms: break, bring out, declare, disclose, discover, divulge, give away, impart, let on, let out, reveal |
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Related Words: babble, babble out, betray, bewray, blab, blab out, blackwash, blow, come out, come out of the closet, confide, leak, out, peach, sing, spring, talk, tattle, tell |
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