Expose

Definition

expose /Çk'spǝƱz/ v ၁။ ျမင္သာေအာင္ျပသည္။ ေဖာ္သည္။ လွစ္သည္။ His trousers were too short, exposing his white ankles. ❍ She lifted the leaves to expose a lovely row of radishes. ၂။ ~ sth/ sb/ oneself (to sth) ေပၚလာသည္။ အဖံုးအအုပ္ အကာအကြယ္မဲ့ထားသည္။ ထိေတြ႕ေစသည္။ The soil was washed away by the flood, exposing the bare rock. ❍ expose employees to unnecessary risks ❍ Don't expose babies to strong sunlight. ❍ ( fig ) expose oneself to criticism/ ridicule ❍ He believes in regularly exposing his pupils to great works of art. ၃။ ေဖာ္ထုတ္သည္။ expose a plot/ a fraud/ an injustice/ a weakness ❍ an unfortunate remark which exposed his ignorance of the subject ❍ She was exposed as an impostor. ၄။ (ဖလင္ကို) အလင္းေရာင္ႏွင့္ ထိေတြ႕ေစသည္။ expose a reel of film. ၅။ ~ oneself လူေရွ႕သူေရွ႕၌ မဖြယ္မရာ လွစ္ျပသည္။ See also ၁။ ဟာလာဟင္းလင္းျဖစ္ေနေသာ။ The cottage is in a very exposed position at the top of the hill. ၂။ ေဝဖန္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈအတြက္ အကာအကြယ္မဲ့ေသာ။ She was left feeling exposed and vulnerable. exposé /ek'spǝƱzeÇ; US ekspǝƱ'zeÇ/ n အုတ္ေအာ္ေသာင္းနင္း ျဖစ္ေစေသာ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ခ်က္။ a damning exposé of corruption within the government.

Examples

1. The melting snow exposed the spring flowers.
2. Many people like to expose old floorboards.
3. [expose someone/something to something] : Many of the soldiers had been exposed to radiation.
4. Why do we still sunbathe when we know the dangers of exposing our skin to the sun?
5. The sale exposed the company to widespread criticism.
6. The press helped to expose the appalling living conditions of the farm workers.
7. [expose someone/something as something] : The videotape of the meeting exposed him as thoroughly corrupt (=showed that he was corrupt).
8. [expose someone to something] : Schools are again exposing children to the classics.