Definition of expose
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or
revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.