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Detect vs Lay_bare - What's the difference?

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Detect is a synonym of lay_bare.


As verbs the difference between detect and lay_bare

is that detect is to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing while lay_bare is to make bare; strip.

As an adjective detect

is (obsolete) detected.

detect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing

    • Derived terms

    * detection * detective * detector

    See also

    * discover * find * stumble upon

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Detected.
    • (Fabyan)

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    lay_bare

    English

    Verb

  • To make bare; strip.
    • And laid''' those proud roofs '''bare to summer's rain. --Byron
  • (figuratively) To expose to view, reveal, uncover.
  • * 1919 , :
    • The central and centralized, imperial governments, guided by the big interests of the country, induced in their unfortunate subjects this last pestilential epidemic of military mania by means of a persistent course of direct and indirect suggestion in which the conditions of normal and abnormal suggestibility were specially emphasized, laying bare the social subconscious, stimulating in it the fear of invasion and attack by neighboring nations, stirring up the impulse of self-preservation, rousing the entranced, hypnotized mind of the populace to a frenzy of self-defense, while the junkers, the officers, the soldiers, the professors, the journalists of the middle-classes were entranced with beatific visions of world-dominion.

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