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exposed

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • Canada//ɪkˈspoʊzd//

Open (especially to something), unconcealed and/or unprotected (and therefore vulnerable, susceptible).

adjective

  1. 1

    Open (especially to something), unconcealed and/or unprotected (and therefore vulnerable, susceptible).

    exposed to light; exposed to water; exposed to abuse; exposed to danger

    an exposed path (trail, etc) up the mountain (one with a drop-off on one or both sides)

    The monastery perched on an exposed cliff.

    The soldiers needed to find cover fast. Their current position was very exposed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of exposesimple past and past participle of expose

    The film was not exposed to sufficient light.

    Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.[…]Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).