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What does lay bare mean?

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Verb
  1. To make bare; strip.
  2. (figuratively) To expose to view, reveal, uncover.
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It can lay bare, if only by omission, what the true priorities and values are.
I feel that people are looking at us now with a magnifying glass to lay bare any fault we might have.
We earnestly hope that this Conference will lay bare the full spectrum of the destructive consequences this practice has had on our continent.
Every new measure of law is placed in the dock with the government as advocate and the opposition to lay bare its faults.
She has the ability to scratch and burrow under the surface of human experience and lay bare both the sacred and profane.
For an organization that extols trustworthiness, these files lay bare an appalling dissonance.

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