1. Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
   "expose the evidence in the murder case";
   - unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, divulge, break, give away, let out, uncover, lay bare
    
2. Make accessible to some action or influence
   "Expose your students to art"; "expose the blanket to sunshine"
    
3. To show, make visible or apparent
   "The Metropolitan Museum is exposing Goya's works this month";
   - exhibit, display
    
4. Reveal to view as by removing a cover
   "The curtain rose to expose a stunning set";
   - disclose, uncover
    
5. Remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
   "The man exposed himself in the subway";
   - uncover
    
6. Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
   "The scandal exposed the politician's career";
   - queer [informal], scupper, endanger, peril
    
7. (photography) expose to light, of photographic film
   "The photographer exposed the film for 1/125th of a second"
    
8. Reveal the falseness or hollowness of a belief, idea, or claim
   "The physicist exposed the psychic's claims";
   - debunk
    
9. Abandon by leaving out in the open air
   "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"

1. The exposure of an impostor or a fraud
   "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government"; "The journalist's exposé revealed the politician's corrupt practices";
   - unmasking

Derived forms: exposes, exposed, exposés, exposing

Type of: abandon, affect, bear on, bear upon, blackguard, bring out, desert, desolate, exposure, forsake [literary], guy, impact, jest at, laugh at, make fun of, poke fun, reveal, rib [informal], ridicule, roast [informal], show, subject, tell, unveil

Antonym: cover

Encyclopedia: Expose