Definitions
abandon by leaving out in the open air
Word origin
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”). Doublet of expone and expound (via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”)), from the same Latin term.
Used in a sentence
“The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.”
“This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.”
“In the OO world, the word is to hide the structure of the data, and expose only functionality. OO designers expose an object to the world in terms of the services it provides.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“make visible”6 letters
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