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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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In his fiction, Maugham often sought to lay bare the hypocrisies of his characters.
She has the ability to scratch and burrow under the surface of human experience and lay bare both the sacred and profane.
It will lay bare our personalities and make known our character, or lack thereof.
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.
We earnestly hope that this Conference will lay bare the full spectrum of the destructive consequences this practice has had on our continent.
You hone your skill with a pen instead of a paddle, lay bare your soul on paper, and send it in to a magazine editor.

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