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Lay_bare vs Expose - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between lay_bare and expose

is that lay_bare is to make bare; strip while expose is (to reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.

As a noun exposé is

publication of investigative journalism.

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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    expose

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia exposé) (en noun)
  • publication of investigative journalism.