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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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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.
However, the rulings seemed to lay bare a shortcoming in the justice system.
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.
I feel that people are looking at us now with a magnifying glass to lay bare any fault we might have.
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.

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