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OVEREXPOSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expose excessively

Example:

As a child, I was overexposed to French movies

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "overexpose" is one way to...):

expose (expose or make accessible to some action or influence)

Domain category:

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Antonym:

underexpose (expose insufficiently)

Derivation:

overexposure (the act of exposing someone excessively to an influencing experience)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Expose to too much light

Example:

the photographic film was overexposed and there is no image

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "overexpose" is one way to...):

expose (expose to light, of photographic film)

Domain category:

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overexpose"):

solarise; solarize (overexpose to sunlight)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

underexpose (expose to too little light)

Derivation:

overexposure (the act of exposing film to too much light or for too long a time)

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