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say it: ik-SPOHZ
expose is a verb and noun meaning "expose or make accessible to some action or influence". It carries 10 recorded senses.
expose or make accessible to some action or influence
“Expose your students to art”
“expose the blanket to sunshine”
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”
“bring out the truth”
“he broke the news to her”
“unwrap the evidence in the murder case”
“The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings”
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”
abandon by leaving out in the open air
“The infant was exposed by the teenage mother”
“After Christmas, many pets get abandoned”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for expose come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.