expose

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To subject or allow to be subjected to an action, influence, or condition: exposed themselves to disease; exposed their children to classical music.
2. v. To subject (a photographic film, for example) to the action of light.
3. v. To deprive of shelter or protection; lay open to danger or harm: troops that were exposed to gunfire.
4. v. To make visible: Cleaning exposed the grain of the wood. See Synonyms at show.
5. v. To make known (something discreditable).
6. v. To reveal the guilt or wrongdoing of: expose a criminal.
7. v. To engage in indecent exposure of (oneself).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To place or set forth so as to be seen or known; lay open to view; lay bare; uncover; reveal: as, to expose a thing to the light; to expose a secret.
2. To place on view; exhibit; show: as, to expose goods for sale.
3. To present to the action or influence of something: as, in photography, to expose a sensitized plate to the action of the actinic rays of light.
4. To place or leave in an unprotected place or state; specifically, to abandon to chance in an open or unprotected place: as, among the ancient Greeks it was not uncommon for parents to expose their children.
5. To place in the way, as of something which it would be better to avoid; subject, as to some risk; make liable: as, vanity exposes a person to ridicule; the movement exposed him to the danger of a raking fire in his flanks.
6. To make known the actions or character of; reveal the secret or secrets of; lay open to comment, ridicule, reprehension, or the like, by some revelation: as, to expose a hypocrite or a rogue; to expose an impostor.
7. To expound, as a theory.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive to uncover, make visible, bring to daylight, introduce to
2. v. transitive to subject photographic film to light thus ruining it or taking a picture if controlled
3. v. transitive to abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display
2. v. To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable
3. v. To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like.
4. v. To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. expose to light, of photographic film
2. v. expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
3. v. abandon by leaving out in the open air
4. v. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
5. v. remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
6. v. disclose to view as by removing a cover
7. v. 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. v. expose or make accessible to some action or influence
9. v. to show, make visible or apparent
10. n. the exposure of an impostor or a fraud