From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Expose \Ex*pose"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Exposed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Exposing}.] [F. exposer; pref. ex- (L. ex out)+poser to place. See {Pose}, verb (used with an object)]
1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them examined. --Locke.
2. To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat.
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. --Shak.
3. To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor.
You only expose the follies of men, without arraigning their vices. --Dryden.
4. To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite. ||
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. with no protection or shield; as, the exposed northeast frontier.
2. visible due to absence of clothing at that point; -- of body parts.
Syn: uncovered, bare. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: with no protection or shield; "the exposed northeast frontier"; "open to the weather"; "an open wound" [syn: {open}]
2: not covered with clothing; "her exposed breast" [syn: {uncovered}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "exposed": aerial, aeriform, aery, airish, airlike, airy, alfresco, answerable for, apparent, apt to, atmospheric, bald, bare, bared, beholdable, belied, bleak, blown, breezy, capable of, clear, cleared, confounded, confuted, deflated, denied, denudated, denuded, dependent on, detectable, discarded, discernible, disclosed, discredited, dismissed, disproved, disputed, divested, ethereal, evident, exploded, exposed to, exposed to view, free, hanging out, impugned, in danger of, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, incident to, insight, invalidated, laid bare, liable, liable to, light, likely, likely to, manifest, naked, naked to, negated, negatived, nonimmune, noticeable, obliged to, obnoxious, observable, open, open as day, open to, open to all, open to view, open-air, outcropping, overt, overthrown, overturned, peeled, perceivable, perceptible, pneumatic, prone, prone to, punctured, raw, ready for, recognizable, refuted, rejected, responsible for, revealed, roomy, seeable, sensitive, showing, shown up, standing to, stripped, subject, subject to, susceptible, susceptive to, threatened, to be seen, tropospheric, unclassified, unclogged, unclosed, unclouded, unconcealed, uncovered, undisguised, unhidden, unobstructed, unrestricted, unstopped, unveiled, upset, viewable, visible, visual, wide-open, windblown, windswept, within range of, witnessable
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