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expose

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expose or make accessible to some action or influence(verb.perception)

Example:
Expose your students to art.
Expose the blanket to sunshine.

source: wordnet30
make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret(verb.communication)

Synonym:
break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, give away, let on, let out, reveal, unwrap

source: wordnet30
to show, make visible or apparent(verb.perception)

Synonym:
display, exhibit

source: wordnet30
remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body(verb.contact)

Example:
The man exposed himself in the subway.

Synonym:
uncover
Antonym:
cover

source: wordnet30
disclose to view as by removing a cover(verb.perception)

Synonym:
disclose

source: wordnet30
put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position(verb.communication)

Synonym:
endanger, peril, queer, scupper

source: wordnet30
expose to light, of photographic film(verb.perception)

source: wordnet30
expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas(verb.communication)

Synonym:
debunk

source: wordnet30
abandon by leaving out in the open air(verb.cognition)

Example:
The infant was exposed by the teenage mother.

source: wordnet30
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.(verb)

source: webster1913

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