Definition: the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
Usage: he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government
Similar words: exposure
Definition: the disclosure of something secret
Usage: they feared exposure of their campaign plans
Synonyms: expose
Definition: abandon by leaving out in the open air
Usage: The infant was exposed by the teenage mother; After Christmas, many pets get abandoned
Similar words: abandon, forsake, desert, desolate
Definition: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
Usage: The mother deserted her children
Definition: expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
Usage: The physicist debunked the psychic's claims
Similar words: jest at, make fun, laugh at, blackguard, guy, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast
Definition: subject to laughter or ridicule
Usage: The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house; The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher; His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
Synonyms: unwrap, expose, give away, reveal, let on, let out, break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge
Definition: make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
Usage: 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
Synonyms: expose, endanger, scupper, peril, queer
Definition: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
Similar words: touch, touch on, impact, affect, bear on, bear upon
Definition: have an effect upon
Usage: Will the new rules affect me?
Synonyms: expose
Definition: expose or make accessible to some action or influence
Usage: Expose your students to art; expose the blanket to sunshine
Similar words: subject
Definition: cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
Usage: He subjected me to his awful poetry; The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills; People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation
Synonyms: expose
Definition: expose to light, of photographic film
Similar words: subject
Definition: cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
Usage: He subjected me to his awful poetry; The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills; People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation
Definition: disclose to view as by removing a cover
Usage: The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set
Similar words: reveal, uncover, bring out, unveil
Definition: make visible
Usage: Summer brings out bright clothes; He brings out the best in her
Synonyms: display, exhibit, expose
Definition: to show, make visible or apparent
Usage: 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
Similar words: show
Definition: make visible or noticeable
Usage: She showed her talent for cooking; Show me your etchings, please