expose

To let someone or something meet, experience, or come into contact with something.

• Books expose children to new ideas.
• We were exposed to the virus at work.
• Don't expose your skin to strong sunlight.

How to use it: expose someone/something to something (Travel can expose children to different ways of life.); be exposed to something (The workers were exposed to loud noise.)

Similar words: subject, introduce

Common phrases: expose children to, expose someone to, expose something to, expose workers to

To uncover something or make hidden facts known.

• The report exposed the truth.
• Wind lifted her sleeve and exposed a scar.
• Journalists have exposed corruption in the council.

How to use it: expose someone/something as something (The investigation exposed the company as a fraud.)

Similar words: reveal, uncover, disclose

Opposites: hide, conceal

Common phrases: expose the truth, expose corruption, expose something as, expose bare skin

To let light reach camera film so that it records a picture or becomes damaged.

• Don't expose the film before developing it.
• She exposed the film for two seconds.
• Was this negative exposed twice?

How to use it: expose film to light (Opening the camera would expose the film to light.)

Common phrases: expose the film, expose a negative, expose film to