lay bare
Verb
Meaning
To make bare; strip.
(figuratively) To expose to view, reveal, uncover.
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As soon as we have stated the tendencies of dictatorship in general, we have already begun to lay bare the characteristics of the Burnham dictatorship.
Evie's disappearance and the events surrounding it all work to lay bare the relationships and conflicts not just within Evie's family but within Lizzie herself.
Her process aims to lay bare the unreal standards of our society.
His body lay bare to her gaze now, but she did not turn away though her face flamed with her own temerity.
Construing your failure as a lack of action affords an important rhetorical benefit: it means you don’t have to lay bare the details of what you have done.
On the other hand, for Sri Lanka this initiative allowed to lay bare the facts before those who mattered in the Indian policy making apparatus; most often sensitive information doesn’t get across in its purest form when foreign ministries interact.