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What does lay bare mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word lay bare? Here's what it means.

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.
For an organization that extols trustworthiness, these files lay bare an appalling dissonance.
We earnestly hope that this Conference will lay bare the full spectrum of the destructive consequences this practice has had on our continent.
Moreover, they saw it as a closed system governed by its own elaborate rules, which it was the task of the structuralist to lay bare.
However, the rulings seemed to lay bare a shortcoming in the justice system.
In his fiction, Maugham often sought to lay bare the hypocrisies of his characters.

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