expose sb to sth
— phrasal verb with expose /ɪkˈspəʊz/
/-ˈspoʊz/ verb [T] Definition
B2 to make it likely that someone will experience something harmful or unpleasant: About 800,000 children are exposed to poisons each year. It is feared that people living near the power station may have been exposed to radiation.Taking risksGambling and bookmaking
(Definition of expose sb to sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a drowning man will clutch at a straw idiom
- a leap in the dark idiom
- adventurer noun
- be skating on thin ice idiom
- chance your arm idiom
- gamble on sth phrasal verb
- go for broke idiom
- have/put your head on the block idiom
- hazard verb
- imperil verb
- play with fire idiom
- pull a stunt idiom
- put your head over/above the parapet idiom
- put your neck on the line idiom
- put/lay sth on the line idiom
- take your life in your hands idiom
- tempt fate/providence idiom
- up the ante idiom
- venture on/upon sth phrasal verb
- venture verb
Topic:
Taking risks
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