Word Finder - exposed

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To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.

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To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.

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To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.

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To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.

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To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.

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(usually followed by to) Vulnerable, susceptible.

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The bike chain is open and exposed to tough environmental conditions such as temperature changes, humidity, rain, dirt and road salt.

Think of the risks we'd all be exposed to.

She covered her exposed skin with her hands.

I can't afford to have my van exposed for very long.

She felt very alone, exposed, standing before him.

Reminding herself that the mirror promised she wasn't as exposed as much breast as it looked from above, she left the ruffle on her arms and began filling their plates.

Faust wore new hiking shorts that exposed bowed legs as white as winter.

She thought she saw tattoos flash across his exposed chest.

It was soaked through and dried with blood and his exposed skin was tinted red.

She rolled onto her back, unaware of how exposed she was.

I figured she was better off not being exposed to that situation.

The line burned across his shoulders and exposed neck.

It'd been only a week and a half since she ventured into this new world, but she felt strangely exposed without Pierre with her.

Deidre entered the shadow world and shivered, her exposed skin chilled.

Deidre stopped in the middle of the sidewalk, feeling very exposed to the blaring world.

Cocoa skin, soulful dark eyes, exotic features, and brilliant tattoos over his exposed, muscular arms.

He pulled the robe over her exposed body, feeling the urge to run to the gym or call Jenn for a quickie to relieve the sexual spring within him.

The halter top she wore exposed her trim midriff.

Exposed, irritated, she pointed to the door.

It bolted, leaving the woman exposed.

All are built in the Doric style, of the local porous stone, which is of a warm red brown colour, full of fossil shells and easily corroded when exposed to the air.

But his preoccupation about Corsica, the privations to which he and his family were then exposed, and his bad health, left him little energy to expend on purely French affairs.

In his violence, bound as he was, he tore his clothes into shreds, and his bare shoulders and breast were exposed to the gaze of the surging crowd.

At her birth, she had been exposed on a hill, her father having expected a son.

Instead of sitting at his ease in a parlor car, he went jolting along through mud and mire, exposed to wind and weather.

General Armfeldt has proposed a splendid position with an exposed rear, or why not this Italian gentleman's attack--very fine, or a retreat, also good!

The curly- headed, delicate boy sat with shining eyes unnoticed in a corner, starting every now and then and muttering something to himself, and evidently experiencing a new and powerful emotion as he turned his curly head, with his thin neck exposed by his turn-down collar, toward the place where Pierre sat.

If he was coming down with a cold, he needed rest - and Destiny didn't need to be exposed to it.

Others were exposed to bar room fights, muggings, schooled in army combat or at least been the recipient of a bloody nose from a third grade bully.

Clutching the robe to her midsection, her upper chest exposed beyond control, she tried to twist from his grip.

Deidre saw the strange flash of a red, glowing tattoo on the lady's exposed neck.

It was light enough that she felt naked, especially with the cut that left her back, arms and shoulders completely exposed.

It fit snugly, though it was so thin, she still felt exposed.

She turned slowly and craned her head to confirm the design covered every inch of her exposed neck.

The Amazonian picked out a couple of T-shirts, her thick upper arms exposed in the tank top and jeans.

She touched her bruised cheekbone and realized doing so exposed her black and blue arm.

Charlie turned to blast Brady's exposed back.

Dean was no stranger to interviews with people recently exposed to the violent side of life.

His high-water trousers exposed black silk socks with little ladders up the sides, held in place with garters, something Dean hadn't seen in decades.

Alex was in short sleeves today, his brown muscular arms exposed to the warm sun.

He was covered in sweat, the muscles of his exposed back rippling with his movement.

Scars were visible on one cheek, on the back of his neck, and on the wide upper body that was exposed the previous day.

It was dark, but the constant lightning flashes exposed a world of wildly waving branches.

To eliminate the sluggish action of the selenium transmitter a selenium cell similar to that at the transmitting station is arranged at the receiving apparatus, and exposed to precisely similar variations of light, the arrangement being such that the lag of this cell counteracts the lag of the transmitting cell.

Under the stress of the appalling financial conditions represented by chronic deficit, crushing taxation, the heavy expenditure necessary for the consolidation of the kingdom, the reform of the army and the interest on the pontifical debt, Sella, on the 11th of December 1871, exposed to parliament the financial situation in all its nakedness.

The course taken by Cranmer in promoting the Reformation exposed him to the bitter hostility of the reactionary party or " men of the old learning," of whom Gardiner and Bonner were leaders, and on various occasions - notably in 1543 and 1 545 - conspiracies were formed in the council or elsewhere to effect his overthrow.

Wheeler with his small band of soldiers and the European and Eurasian residents were exposed for 21 days to the fire of the mutineers, is merely a bare field, containing the well where many women and children were shot while getting water.

And he gives as a crowning instance that he exposed himself to the hatred of the informer Cyprianus by preventing the punishment of Albinus, a man of consular rank.

Russia they form the floor upon which lies a thin covering of Tertiary beds, and they are exposed to view in the valleys of the Dnieper and the Bug.

At the ecclesiastical council which took place at Paris in 1406 Pierre d'Ailly made every effort to avert a new withdrawal from the obedience and, by order of the king, took the part of defender of Benedict XIII., a course which yet again exposed him to attacks from the university party.

Laius, having been warned by an oracle that he would be killed by his son, ordered him to be exposed, with his feet pierced, immediately after his birth.