UNMASKING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The exposure of an impostor or a fraud

Example:

he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government

Synonyms:

expose; unmasking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("unmasking" is a kind of...):

exposure (the disclosure of something secret)

Derivation:

unmask (reveal the true nature of)

unmask (take the mask off)

-ing form of the verb unmask