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expose
  • n  the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
    he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government
  • v  expose or make accessible to some action or influence
    expose the blanket to sunshine
  • v  make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
  • v  to show, make visible or apparent
  • v  remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
    The man exposed himself in the subway
  • v  disclose to view as by removing a cover
  • v  put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
  • v  expose to light, of photographic film
  • v  expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
  • v  abandon by leaving out in the open air
    The infant was exposed by the teenage mother
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exposition
  • n  a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic
  • n  a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
  • n  an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse
    we would have understood the play better if there had been some initial exposition of the background
  • n  (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur
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expostulation
  • n  the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
  • n  an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof
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exposure
  • n  vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain;
    exposure to the weather" or "they died from exposure
  • n  the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
    she denounced the exposure of children to pornography
  • n  the disclosure of something secret
    they feared exposure of their campaign plans
  • n  aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
    the studio had a northern exposure
  • n  the state of being vulnerable or exposed
    his exposure to ridicule
  • n  the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate
    he used the wrong exposure
  • n  a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
  • n  the act of exposing film to light
  • n  presentation to view in an open or public manner
    the exposure of his anger was shocking
  • n  abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)
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exposure meter
  • n  photographic equipment that measures the intensity of light
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exposure therapy
  • n  a form of behavior therapy in which a survivor confronts feelings or phobias or anxieties about a traumatic event and relives it in the therapy situation
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expounding
  • n  a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic
  • v  add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
  • v  state
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