expose

expose is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
2. transitive verb. To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat.
3. transitive verb. To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor.
4. transitive verb. To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite.
5. transitive verb. A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.
6. noun. the exposure of an impostor or a fraud

   "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government"

   Synonyms: unmasking

7. verb. abandon by leaving out in the open air

   "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"

   "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned"

8. verb. expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas

   "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims"

   Synonyms: debunk

9. 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 auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"

   "The actress won't reveal how old she is"

   Synonyms: break, disclose, discover, divulge, reveal, unwrap

10. verb. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

    Synonyms: endanger, peril, queer, scupper

11. verb. remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body

    "uncover your belly"

    "The man exposed himself in the subway"

    Synonyms: uncover

12. verb. expose or make accessible to some action or influence

    "Expose your students to art"

    "expose the blanket to sunshine"

13. verb. expose to light, of photographic film
14. verb. disclose to view as by removing a cover

    "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set"

    Synonyms: disclose

15. 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?"

    Synonyms: display, exhibit

Synonyms

unmasking, debunk, break, disclose, discover, divulge, reveal, unwrap, endanger, peril, queer, scupper, uncover, display, exhibit

Common word forms

exposed, exposer, exposes, exposing

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