Expose
Expose verb - To make known (as information previously kept secret).
Usage example: the documentary claims to expose how winners of beauty pageants are really picked
Obscure
Obscure verb - To keep secret or shut off from view.
Usage example: the investigative reporters obscured their real motives for visiting the company by pretending the story was about something else
Common collocations
| truth | expose truth | obscure truth |
| relationship | expose relationship | obscure relationship |
| nature | expose nature | obscure nature |
| fact | expose fact | obscure fact |
| Other words: identity, light, actions, identities. | ||
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Obscure and Expose. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/expose/obscure
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