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What does laid bare mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of lay bare
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And the incident has laid bare the woeful lack of facilities in Scotland for the proper treatment of offenders with mental disorders.
But this was the year when the race nearly came off the rails, as the mirky world of doping in professional cycling was laid bare for all to see.
The carnage of a motorcycle crash will be laid bare before bikers when they are given the chance to see the gruesome results.
They said they hoped to make the specialist worker's appointment a permanent one after the scale of the problem was laid bare by police figures.
Check out the back pages of any glossy magazine and the dream is laid bare.
The veneer of middle-class respectability is laid bare for the cheating, backstabbing and adulterous world it really is in Leslie Darbon's play.

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