expose

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the exposure of an impostor or a fraud

   I published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government.

2. 2
   verb

   abandon by leaving out in the open air

   The infant was exposed by the teenage mother

3. 3
   verb

   To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).

   The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.

4. 4
   verb

   To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.

   This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.

5. 5
   verb

   To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.

   In the OO world, the word is to hide the structure of the data, and expose only functionality. OO designers expose an object to the world in terms of the services it provides.

6. 6
   verb

   expose while ridiculing

7. 7
   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

8. 8
   verb

   put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

Etymology

From Middle English exposen, from Old French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). Doublet of expone and expound (via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”)), from the same Latin term.