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Results for: "expose"

Translating from English to Catalan

Translations:

expose — to uncover, reveal
→ exposar
→ revelar
expose — to subject photographic film to light
→ exposar

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (1)

1. the exposure of an impostor or a fraud;
- Example: "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government"
[syn: expose, unmasking]


VERB (9)

1. expose or make accessible to some action or influence;
- Example: "Expose your students to art"
- Example: "expose the blanket to sunshine"

2. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret;
- Example: "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"
- Example: "The actress won't reveal how old she is"
- Example: "bring out the truth"
- Example: "he broke the news to her"
- Example: "unwrap the evidence in the murder case"
[syn: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out]

3. to show, make visible or apparent;
- Example: "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"
- Example: "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"
- Example: "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship"
[syn: expose, exhibit, display]

4. remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body;
- Example: "uncover your belly"
- Example: "The man exposed himself in the subway"
[syn: uncover, expose]

5. disclose to view as by removing a cover;
- Example: "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set"
[syn: disclose, expose]

6. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position;
[syn: queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril]

7. expose to light, of photographic film;

8. expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas;
- Example: "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims"
[syn: debunk, expose]

9. abandon by leaving out in the open air;
- Example: "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"
- Example: "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned"