expose

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 6.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light.
2. verb To subject photographic film to light, thereby recording an image.
3. verb To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance, such as radiation, a chemical, or any other stress.

   Residents were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.

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

   to expose an API

5. verb To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.

Similar words

disclose bring out discover divulge let out uncover declare unmasking give away debunk

Often followed by

the them themselves their a himself his him it of

Word family

exposed exposer exposers exposes exposing exposure exposures