Other forms: exposed, exposing, exposes
To expose is to pull the cover off something hidden so that everybody can see it. Expose the fraud, exposed the whole scheme, exposed to view.
In journalism it means revealing wrongdoing, and an exposé, with the accent, is the article that does it. It also means to leave something unprotected: exposed to the weather, exposed to risk, exposed wiring. In photography, exposure is how much light reaches the film or sensor. Note exposure in its medical sense, meaning dangerous cold, and exposed as an adjective meaning windswept and unsheltered.
1verbexposeTo reveal something hidden.
“The article exposed a scheme that had run for a decade.”
synonyms: uncover, reveal
2verbleaveTo leave something unprotected.
“The roof was off and the whole floor was exposed to the rain.”
expose is an uncovering.
Also accepted in games: uncover, reveal
Latin exponere is ex-, out, plus ponere, to place — to place out in the open. Expose, exposition and expound are the same verb, so an exposition is literally a putting out on display.
Proto-Indo-European
*tḱey-
Latin
expōnō — set forth
Old French
exposer — to lay open, set forth
Middle English
exposen
English, today
expose
Built from
From Middle English exposen, from Old French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). a doublet of expone and expound (via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”)), from the same Latin term.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA