What is the meaning of expose?

noun

• The exposure of an impostor or a fraud.
  • usage: "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government"
  • synonyms: unmasking

verb

• Expose or make accessible to some action or influence.
  • usage: "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.
  • usage: "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"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case"
  • synonyms: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, divulge, break, give away, let out
• To show, make visible or apparent.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: exhibit, display
• Remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body.
  • usage: "uncover your belly"; "The man exposed himself in the subway"
  • synonyms: uncover
• Disclose to view as by removing a cover.
  • usage: "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set"
  • synonyms: disclose
• Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position.
  • synonyms: queer, scupper, endanger, peril
• Expose to light, of photographic film.
• Expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas.
  • usage: "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims"
  • synonyms: debunk
• Abandon by leaving out in the open air.
  • usage: "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"; "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned"