Definition of Expose

Verb: expose ik'spowz or ek'spowz

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
"expose the evidence in the murder case";
- unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, divulge, break, give away, let out, lay bare
To show, make visible or apparent
"The Metropolitan Museum is exposing Goya's works this month";
- exhibit, display
Remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
"The man exposed himself in the subway";
- uncover
Uncover, expose to view
"The curtain rose to expose a stunning set";
- disclose
Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- queer, scupper, endanger, peril
(photography) expose to light, of photographic film
Uncover while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
"The physicist exposed the psychic's claims";
- debunk
Abandon by leaving out in the open air
"The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"