1Make (something) visible, typically by uncovering it.

1. 1.1often as adjective exposed Leave (something) uncovered or unprotected, especially from the weather.
   the coast is very exposed to the southwest

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   • A second category of landforms includes those that relate to the intense cryogenic weathering of exposed bedrock.
   • There was something about this exposed, windswept piece of tarmac and turf which touched his soul.
   • The gusting wind muddied the open water of the exposed lake, and no activity was visible.
   • Expect schizophrenic weather in this exposed, wind-wracked landscape.
   • For the first time the civilian population throughout Britain and not just those in exposed coastal locations were vulnerable to attack.
   • Fully exposed to the elements, this crumbling edifice was his training grounds.
   • The three-acre garden was created from an exposed open field now sheltered by hedges and fences.
   • It was also late September, winter only weeks away and the nights bitterly cold with snow falling on the barren and exposed mountain pass, over which now we would have to cross.
   • It is the programmer's responsibility to ensure that no wires are left exposed so that no damage can occur from the users of the structure.
   • What type of primer would you recommend based on mostly bare exposed wood?
   • Water causes decay or rot of the wood and early failure of paint, and it accelerates the weathering of wood exposed outdoors.
   • Complete oxeas and styles are rare but do occur scattered as weathered elements on exposed etched surfaces.
   • But before Chase could even respond, he suddenly felt the hot sharp steel of a weapon dabbing the base of his exposed and unprotected neck.
   • The corals are inseparable from the matrix of the rocks and generally badly weathered on the exposed surfaces.
   • Treated seed exposed on soil surfaces will be hazardous to birds and other wildlife.

   Synonyms

   unprotected, open, wide open, without protection, without shelter, unsheltered, open to the elements, open to the weather
2. 1.2 Subject (photographic film) to light, especially when operating a camera.
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   • In the traditional darkroom, a photographer makes a print by projecting light through the original piece of film, which exposes the paper.
   • Some images are printed using the Lightjet, a digital enlarger that exposes photographic paper with red, green and blue lasers.
   • Her work makes excellent use of what looks like badly exposed outdated Polaroid film.
   • Until the early 1900s, photographic films had to be exposed for some 10 seconds.
   • I mainly use the meter setting of 3200 at the camera to expose the film.
3. 1.3expose oneself Publicly and indecently display one's genitals.
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   • A flasher has indecently exposed himself to two teenage girls in Broadway as they cycled near a disused railway bridge.
   • He was a twenty-something, strapping young lad, never having exposed himself publicly!
   • When she turned round, the man indecently exposed himself.
   • So, all incidents of females exposing themselves in public, where pictures are taken which result in disciplinary action or loss of job, shall now be called examples of the Bosley-Cherry Disconnect.
   • Police are hunting for a sex pest who indecently exposed himself after trapping a 10-year-old girl in a St Annes phone box.
   • The old Rastafarian who screams in the park was arrested for trying to steal a handbag and for exposing himself in a public place.
   • A man was seen to be indecently exposing himself along a footpath.
   • A motorist repeatedly blocked the path of a woman after indecently exposing himself to her as she waited for a bus on a busy Richmond road.
   • He was convicted twice in 1989 for indecently exposing himself to ten-year-old girls.
   • The man approached her and indecently exposed himself, before making a grab for her.
   • In each case the offender rode up on a mountain bike and sped off after committing an indecent assault or exposing himself.
   • The court heard he had three previous convictions of outraging public decency after exposing himself in front of women in Manchester city centre.
   • Police were today continuing to hunt two men who indecently exposed themselves to girls in Swindon.
   • The hotelier in the resort for six years was arrested on Thursday after indecently exposing himself to a plain clothes male officer.
   • He also has allegations of exposing himself and urinating in public.
   • Three weeks earlier he exposed himself then indecently assaulted a 17-year-old girl walking in the same area just after 5pm on May 20.
   • Which soap actor made a public apology for exposing himself on the Internet?
   • A shuffling street drinker with a string of convictions over eight lost years, she is now notorious as the woman who exposes herself in public.
   • A whistling teenager who indecently exposed himself four times to young girls was today being hunted by police.
   • Apparently he was wanted for a series of offences ranging from indecently exposing himself to children to assaults on people who refused to give him money.

   Synonyms

   flash
4. 1.4usually as adjective exposed Leave or put (someone) in an unprotected and vulnerable state.
   Miranda felt exposed and lonely

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   • The plain was as flat as a tabletop, and she instinctively felt exposed and vulnerable, there being no possible way to conceal one's presence.
   • This attitude, at once exposed and cautious, open and liberated, characterizes her prose.
   • Although most of us are not begging on the street with an open hand, are we not all pleading with an exposed and vulnerable heart to be received?
   • Never sit in front of or with your back to a door or window, which leaves you exposed and vulnerable.
   • The wide open grass seemed strange, and they felt exposed and vulnerable after the comfortable shelter of the friendly forest.
   • When dawn came, I saw that my hiding place was no good - I was as exposed as a newborn baby.
   • They do the job because they want to help patients and make a difference to people, often when they are at their most exposed and vulnerable.
   • I had read her secret diary; she should have been feeling exposed and vulnerable at least a little bit, right?
   • And he'll be riding thousands of miles, exposed on the open roads of their country!
   • She wanted to protest, feeling more defenceless and exposed than ever with her back to any possible threat.
   • The earth lay open and exposed, its surface turned back like flaps of skin on a human chest, ready for surgery.
   • To leave them thus open and exposed is to place temptation in the way of would - be looters and smugglers.
5. 1.5expose someone to Cause someone to experience or be at risk of.
   he exposed himself unnecessarily to gunfire in the war

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   • From a personal safety point of view (14 members of the party were shot dead) it was foolhardy to expose yourself to risk by publicly stating your politics.
   • The study comprised 1260 individuals of various professions who were identified as occupationally exposed to ionizing radiation.
   • It is the sheer meaninglessness of the chaotic instability of our experiences which exposes us to despair.
   • Non-smokers exposed over an extended period of time to passive smoking also have an increased risk of lung cancer.
   • Further studies are planned in which workers occupationally exposed to chemicals will be evaluated.
   • Surely the top chefs are not seriously advocating that members of the public expose themselves to the risk of Hepatitis A by consuming raw oysters?
   • They argue that everyone has the right to go to a public place without being exposed to harm.
   • What can be done to ensure that we are not exposed to unnecessary risks from electromagnetic radiation?
   • The Australian Consumers' Association says the public is being exposed to more and more bait advertising, particularly with online buying.
   • Because her partner's immune system had been weakened by his condition, she was concerned he would be vulnerable if exposed to the disease.
   • He was regularly exposed to asbestos in the course of his employments as a boilermaker.
   • At work we are exposed to noise all day.
   • Hegarty assumes that our intention in travelling along a street is not merely to get somewhere, but to expose ourselves to a continuous display of messages encouraging us to buy things.
   • A French team of experts also showed that blood-brain barrier leakage was increased in rats exposed to mobile phone radiation.
   • Youngsters who are regularly exposed to tobacco smoke are twice as likely to develop asthma and chest infections.
   • Hospitality workers are particularly vulnerable because they are exposed to high levels of second-hand smoke on a daily basis.
   • Moreover, 5-10% of patients who are successfully treated experience coronary reocclusion, exposing them to the hazards of reinfarction.
   • The impact smashed open the capsule exposing its precious scientific cargo to contamination.
   • Why take clients down a path of experimentation that exposes them to unnecessary risk and continued expensive maintenance?
   • Most therapists readily recognize that children are at risk if they are exposed to political violence themselves.

   Synonyms

   make vulnerable, make subject, subject, lay open
6. 1.6 Make (something embarrassing or damaging) public.
   investigations exposed a vast network of illegalities

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   • On the day Laois were cruelly punished as a rampant Tyrone side tore them apart and cruelly exposed their frailties.
   • We have seen that similar roles of the press are developing there too as media expose corruption.
   • The Stevens report has exposed what that means - the state organising and covering up the murder of innocent people.
   • Those issues aside, many citizens want the tribunals to be very public - both to expose the past's horrors and to prove that justice is done.
   • Isn't there advantage in exposing the fissures within society itself?
   • From now on, all such information will no longer be exposed to the public.
   • Real whistleblowers expose wrongdoing while it is going on.
   • The former chief executive is set to sue the club in a move that could see the turmoil surrounding his replacement's ruthless takeover exposed in open court.
   • After their bowling inadequacies were exposed earlier in the series, Australia gambled this time by dropping a batsman.
   • Will the results of such an investigation even be exposed to public view?
   • But there are also other developmental and infrastructural stories that need to be exposed by the media.
   • An inclination to tyranny has seldom been so readily exposed by a public figure.
   • The party chair race has exposed deep fissures within the Democratic Party.
   • The truth is he did not, which further exposes his hypocrisy and irresponsibility.
   • Perhaps they are just too shy and tender to expose their sensitive and creative sides to the cruel world.
   • The problems have largely been of confidence and that has often been exposed at the French Open, where she seems to suffer from the burden of home expectation and has a relatively poor record.
   • Losing the vote would not mean the end of his government, but would be an embarrassment and expose the fissures within the 20-party ruling coalition.
7. 1.7 Reveal the true and typically objectionable nature of (someone or something)
   he has been exposed as a liar and a traitor

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   • He was officially exposed as a spy by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and was stripped of his knighthood.
   • The reporter was exposed as a fraud last year after complaints from staff and readers that some of his stories appeared to be copied from other newspapers.
   • Suddenly he is exposed as just another coach.
   • Yet he loves to expose those in the public eye, especially Tory politicians, for sleaze.
   • The overwhelming musical score and the too consistent whirling dervish camera only work to expose the film's desperate bid to keep its core vapidity under wraps.
   • But just before 1.15 pm on Wednesday, the Prime Minister was exposed as either a liar or an incompetent.
   • The newspaper lost face when one of its reporters was exposed as a plagiarist.
   • In the final analysis though, this film too, exposes the darker and more savage aspect of ‘civilized’ urban society.
   • The applicant, at trial, was effectively exposed as a sham.
   • However in recent years this reputation has been exposed as a sham.
   • How on earth can he make light of being publicly exposed as a liar?
   • I fear that I'll betray my lack of formal film education and be exposed for the fraud that I am.
   • He was exposed as the worst sort of politician we have in this Parliament.
   • I was exposed as a neat freak when I house-sat for my editor.
   • Companies which had flourished when no one examined them too closely were suddenly exposed as shams.
   • The answer is you point out that plagiarists will be exposed and shamed in public - and this is exactly what happened two decades ago with the VC.
   • The big issue is, if she's exposed as a fraud before we get our house keys back, I don't want her to go in a tiff and get them duplicated and such.
   • He was exposed as a man who thinks so little of the ethics of high office that he lobbied on ministerial letterhead to get his son off a traffic offence.
   • His intention to become ordained was thwarted when he was exposed as an agnostic and his religious scepticism caused suspicion in the university.
   • He was exposed as a double agent in the mid 1980s and relocated in mainland Britain.

   Synonyms

   uncover, reveal, show, display, exhibit, disclose, manifest, unveil, unmask
8. 1.8expose someone to Introduce someone to (a subject or area of knowledge)
   students were exposed to probability and statistics in high school

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   • Our mission is to introduce entrepreneurs to the art of effective networking and to expose them to resources that will assist them in attracting new markets.
   • Apart from providing a platform for emerging artists, the festival aims to lure people into the inner city and expose them to the venues and positive developments in the area.
   • During our quest for knowledge, we are exposed to a variety of research studies based on different research designs.
   • Each day had something new for the children, exposing them to various knowledge inputs.
   • It brings a challenge but it exposes you to different business areas.
   • This is important as it constantly exposes me to different types of knowledge and perspectives on life.
   • This is a youth sports programme that provides all children with the opportunity to actively participate in physical education by exposing them to skills and knowledge of individual sports.
   • I learned this through the field experiences that exposed me to different cultures.
   • Their lack of knowledge and the context for much of the knowledge they are exposed to shapes their world.
   • The idea was to give a venue to its young members for getting stage experience as well as expose them to the world of film classics.
   • Having grown up and lived in a very multicultural area of London, I have been exposed to many forms of religion.
   • They report great success with the store, since it offers a great way for the reading public to be exposed to comics - and maybe even buy some!
   • The children would add information to the projects as they were exposed to new knowledge.
   • ‘We lived in the Mount Baker area so she could be exposed to diverse socioeconomic communities,’ said her father.
   • While providing an environment in which students can work with top experts in specialized areas, the project also aims to expose them to other disciplines.
   • Many Americans were first exposed to Breillat's films through Romance, a critically touted but unpopular film.
   • As an undergraduate, mathematics had been his preferred subject and he was exposed to political economy only in an introductory course taught by Hadley.
   • This father also reported that he took his son ‘everywhere’ with him, not only to expose him to a variety of experiences, but also for him to walk for exercise.
   • Clinicians can mentor students placed in the perioperative area and expose them to aspects of perioperative nursing that first interested these educators in this specialty.
   • When I was four or five years old, my parents decided they'd had enough of the city life and moved into a very rural area about 30 miles from Austin, exposing me to a completely new side of American culture.

   Synonyms

   introduce
9. 1.9 Leave (a child) in the open to die.

A report of the facts about something, especially a journalistic report that reveals something scandalous.