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Verb expose has 9 senses
- expose - expose or make accessible to some action or influence; "Expose your students to art"; "expose the blanket to sunshine"
--1 is one way to subject
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- disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out - 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't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"
--2 is one way to tell
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Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- expose, exhibit, display - to show, make visible or apparent; "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship"
--3 is one way to show
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- uncover, expose - remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body; "uncover your belly"; "The man exposed himself in the subway"
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- disclose, expose - disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set"
--5 is one way to uncover, bring out, unveil, reveal
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- queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril - put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
--6 is one way to affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
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- expose - expose to light, of photographic film
--7 is one way to subject
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- debunk, expose - expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims"
--8 is one way to ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun
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- expose - abandon by leaving out in the open air; "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"; "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned"
--9 is one way to abandon, forsake, desolate, desert
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