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Expose

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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Verb group 2

Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Abandon 76% connected

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

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Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Blackguard 76% connected

The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen…

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Desert 76% connected

That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

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Desolate 76% connected

Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.

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Disclose 76% connected

To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.

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Exposure 76% connected

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or cont…

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Forsake 76% connected

To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.

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Guy 76% connected

A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which hold…

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Impact 76% connected

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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Reveal 76% connected

To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.

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Rib 76% connected

One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

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Ridicule 76% connected

An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.

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Roast 76% connected

To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces wit…

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Subject 76% connected

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Uncover 76% connected

To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.

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Unveil 76% connected

To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.

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Aerate 76% connected

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.

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Air 76% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Babble 76% connected

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

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Bare 76% connected

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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Bench 76% connected

A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.

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Betray 76% connected

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed…

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Bewray 76% connected

To soil. See Beray.

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Blab 76% connected

To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.

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Blackwash 76% connected

A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Brandish 76% connected

To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.

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Compromise 76% connected

A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators.

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Confide 76% connected

To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.

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Face 76% connected

The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…

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Flash 76% connected

To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

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Flaunt 76% connected

To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.

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Gibbet 76% connected

A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allow…

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Insolate 76% connected

To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure.

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Leak 76% connected

A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.

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Model 76% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Moon 76% connected

The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to…

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Open 76% connected

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

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Ostentate 76% connected

To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly.

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Out 76% connected

In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation wh…

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Peach 76% connected

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

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Pillory 76% connected

A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in f…

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Pose 76% connected

Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Posture 76% connected

The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; espe…

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Produce 76% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Reveal 76% connected

To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.

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Sing 76% connected

To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of…

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Sit 76% connected

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.

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Solarize 76% connected

To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.

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Spring 76% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Sun 76% connected

See Sunn.

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Swank 76% connected

of Swink

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Tattle 76% connected

To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.

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Uncloak 76% connected

To remove a cloak or cover from; to deprive of a cloak or cover; to unmask; to reveal.

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Unclothe 76% connected

To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.

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Uncover 76% connected

To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.

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Undo 76% connected

To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.

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Undrape 76% connected

To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.

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Unmask 76% connected

To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.

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Unveil 76% connected

To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.

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Unwrap 76% connected

To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

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Ventilate 76% connected

To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a…

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Display 74% connected

To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

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Display 74% connected

To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

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Exposure 74% connected

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or cont…

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Exposure 74% connected

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or cont…

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Vulnerability 74% connected

The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.

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Vulnerability 74% connected

The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.

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Break 72% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Break 92% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Disclose 92% connected

To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Discover 92% connected

To uncover.

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Display 92% connected

To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

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Divulge 92% connected

To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Endanger 92% connected

To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.

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Exhibit 92% connected

To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to disp…

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Peril 92% connected

Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

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Queer 92% connected

At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…

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Reveal 92% connected

To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.

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Scupper 92% connected

An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

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Uncover 92% connected

To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.

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Unwrap 92% connected

To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

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Antonym 2

Cover 94% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Cover 94% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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