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Find_out vs Lay_bare - What's the difference?

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Find_out is a related term of lay_bare.


As verbs the difference between find_out and lay_bare

is that find_out is (idiomatic) to discover, as by asking or exploring while lay_bare is to make bare; strip.

find_out

English

Verb

  • (idiomatic) To discover, as by asking or exploring.
    • I don't know who the twenty-first president of the United States was, but it should be very easy to find out .

    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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