laying bare

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• bare — I. adjective (barer; barest) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bær; akin to Old High German bar naked, Lithuanian basas barefoot Date: before 12th century 1. a. lacking a natural, usual, or appropriate covering b. (1) lacking clothing …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Laying — Lay Lay (l[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Laid} (l[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Laying}.] [OE. leggen, AS. lecgan, causative, fr. licgan to lie; akin to D. leggen, G. legen, Icel. leggja, Goth. lagjan. See {Lie} to be prostrate.] 1. To cause to lie down,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• lay bare — verb a) to expose or clarify something And laid those proud roofs bare to summers rain. Byron b) to make bare; strip The central and centralized, imperial governments, guided by the big interests of the country, induced in their unfortunate… …   Wiktionary

• To lay bare — Lay Lay (l[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Laid} (l[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Laying}.] [OE. leggen, AS. lecgan, causative, fr. licgan to lie; akin to D. leggen, G. legen, Icel. leggja, Goth. lagjan. See {Lie} to be prostrate.] 1. To cause to lie down,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• denudation — Depriving of a covering or protecting layer; the act of laying bare, as in the removal of the epithelium from a surface. [L. de nudo, to lay bare, fr. de, from, + nudus, naked] * * * de·nu·da·tion .dē n(y)ü dā shən, .den yu̇ n the act or process… …   Medical dictionary

• strip# — strip vb Strip, divest, denude, bare, dismantle can mean to deprive a person or thing of what clothes, furnishes, or invests him or it. Strip stresses a pulling or tearing off rather than a laying bare, though the latter implication is frequent;… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Exposure — Ex*po sure (?;135), n. [From {Expose}.] 1. The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. [1913 Webster] The exposure of Fuller . . . put… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• expose — Synonyms and related words: advertise, air, apocalypse, attaint, awaken, bare, baring, belie, bespatter, betray, blacken, blot, blow sky high, blow up, blow upon, brand, brandish, break the seal, break the spell, bring to light, broadcast, burst… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Alan Bennett — Infobox Actor name = Alan Bennett birthdate = birth date and age|1934|5|9 birthplace = Leeds, Yorkshire yearsactive = 1963 present baftaawards = Best Single Drama 1992 A Question of Attribution laurenceolivierawards = Best New Comedy 1989 Single… …   Wikipedia

• Astronomy — • Divided into two main branches, astrometry and astrophysics; the former concerned with determining the places of the investigation of the heavenly bodies, the latter, with the investigation of their chemical and physical nature Catholic… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• exposure — Synonyms and related words: ASA exposure index, DIN number, PR, acquaintance, airing, apocalypse, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, aspect, attitude, avatar, azimuth, ballyhoo, baring, bearing, bearings, blurb, bright light, bringing to …   Moby Thesaurus