expose

expose or 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

• “The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold”
• “The actress won”
• “;”

to show, make visible or apparent

• “The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya”
• “;”
• “t you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?”
• “National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship”

remove all or part of one''s clothes to show one''s body

• “uncover your belly”
• “The man exposed himself in the subway”

disclose to view as by removing a cover

• “The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set”

put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

expose to light, of photographic film

expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas

• “The physicist debunked the psychic”

abandon by leaving out in the open air

• “The infant was exposed by the teenage mother”
• “After Christmas, many pets get abandoned”

the exposure of an impostor or a fraud

• “he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government”