expose sb to sth
— phrasal verb with expose uk/ɪkˈspəʊz/us/ɪkˈspoʊz/verb [ T ]
B2 to make it likely that someone will experience something harmful or unpleasant:
About 800,000 children are exposed to poisons each year.
It is feared that people living near the power station may have been exposed to radiation.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Taking risks
- a drowning man will clutch at a straw idiom
- a leap in the dark idiom
- adventurer
- ante
- be skating on thin ice idiom
- dare
- expose
- have/put your head on the block idiom
- hazard
- imperil
- jeopardize
- lay
- lay sth on the line idiom
- neck
- run the risk of doing sth idiom
- sail close to the wind idiom
- skate
- stick (sth) out
- stick your neck out idiom
- stunt
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