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🔎 To reveal secrets ⚠️ To put at risk 🪟 To uncover 🙈 To show body 📷 To let in light 💻 To make available 👶 To abandon
to expose

to expose

1 8.8
Leave a baby or child alone where they are unprotected
  • verb
  • /ɪkˈspoʊz/
  • Archaic
: abandonar
  • Frequently, unwanted infants were left exposed to the elements, like Oedipus.

Examples

  • In the cold night, the child was exposed to harsh weather after being left outside without supervision.

  • The mother had no choice but to expose her baby in a box on the doorstep, hoping someone would help.

  • There are children exposed to this depravity.

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  • So if we find the infant exposed to to HIV again six week visit, everything stays the same.

  • After the storm, the rescue team discovered the puppy exposed and shivering under the park bench.

Antonyms

to care for
378 1.0

Look after a sick or injured person and give them needed help

Phrasal Verbs

to expose oneself to
1 5.6

To put yourself in a situation to experience something new or difficult

to expose oneself to the sun
3.8

To stay in strong sun for tanning or warmth

How Sheltered

to shelter
58 2.5
to bower
1 9.9
to shade
17 1.0
to expose
  • Archaic
1 8.8

Surface Forms

expose infinitive
exposed past
exposed past participle
exposing present participle
exposes third person singular

Morphology

expose = pose (opaque) = ex + pose

This historical sense 'to abandon (an infant) by leaving it exposed' relies on an older cultural practice and is not a meaning learners would readily derive from the components.

Etymology

Expose comes from the Latin parts ex- 'out' and ponere 'to place', the same root as position. So to expose a child in old times meant to 'place them out' in the open, sadly leaving them without protection.