expose
noun
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government
Types & categories
- exposure hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
expose or make accessible to some action or influence
Expose your students to art
Types & categories
- subject hypernym
- ventilate hyponym
- insolate hyponym
- air hyponym
- overexpose hyponym
- underexpose hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
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
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- get around causes
- revelation derivation
- revelation derivation
- divulgence derivation
- discovery derivation
- giveaway derivation
- exposure derivation
- expose derivation
- get around verb group
Sense 4 verb
to show, make visible or apparent
The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- display derivation
- exhibition derivation
- exposure derivation
Sense 5 verb
remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
uncover your belly
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- cover antonym
Sense 6 verb
disclose to view as by removing a cover
The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- exposure derivation
Sense 7 verb
put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
Types & categories
- affect hypernym
- compromise hyponym
Related & opposite
- risk derivation
- risk derivation
- riskiness derivation
- vulnerability derivation
Sense 8 verb
expose to light, of photographic film
Types & categories
- subject hypernym
- overexpose hyponym
- underexpose hyponym
Related & opposite
- exposure derivation
- exposure derivation
- photography domain topic
Sense 9 verb
expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
The physicist debunked the psychic's claims
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 10 verb
abandon by leaving out in the open air
The infant was exposed by the teenage mother
Types & categories
- desert hypernym
Related & opposite
- exposure derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | debunk |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | disclose |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | uncloak |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | unmask |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | exposure |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exposure |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exposure |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | subject |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | ventilate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | insolate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | air |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | overexpose |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | underexpose |
| 3 | causes | Related & opposite | get around |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | revelation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | revelation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | divulgence |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | discovery |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | giveaway |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | exposure |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | expose |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | get around |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | tell |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | blackwash |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | muckrake |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | blow |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | out |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | out |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | spring |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | betray |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | confide |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | leak |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | peach |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | reveal |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | display |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhibition |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | exposure |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | show |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | open |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | bring forth |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | hold up |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | bench |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | moon |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | swank |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | brandish |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | model |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | pose |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | pillory |
| 5 | antonym | Related & opposite | cover |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | unwrap |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | undrape |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | unclothe |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | bare |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | unmask |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | unveil |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | exposure |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | bring out |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | face |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | risk |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | risk |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | riskiness |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | vulnerability |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | affect |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | compromise |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | exposure |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | exposure |
| 8 | domain topic | Related & opposite | photography |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | subject |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | overexpose |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | underexpose |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | debunking |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | expose |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | ridicule |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | uncloak |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | exposure |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | desert |