v. t. | 1. | To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; |
2. | To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; | |
3. | To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; | |
4. | To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; | |
n. | 1. | A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed. |