betray

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust

   To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.

   • An officer betrayed the city.
   • He betrayed his own sister to the secret police.
2. 2

   To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts

   To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.

   • to betray a person or a cause
   • Quresh betrayed Sunil to marry Nuzhat.
   • My eyes have been betraying me since I turned sixty.
3. 3

   To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor…

   To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.

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   1. 4

      To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.

      • The dead leap at the throat, destroy The meaning of the day; dark forms Have scaled your walls, and spies betray Old secrets to amorphous swarms.
   2. 5

      To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal

      To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.

      • Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.
      • Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast [Josh] Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.
      • Again, to take a less extreme example, there is no denying that although the dialects of northern France retained their fundamentally Romance character, they betray many Germanic influences in phonetics and vocabulary, […]
   3. 6

      To mislead

      To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.

   4. 7

      To lead astray

      To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

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• synonymassfuck
• synonymbetray
• synonymburn
• synonymcop out
• synonymcross out
• synonymcross up
• synonymdouble-cross
• synonymdo someone dirty
• synonymdo the dirty on
• synonymfalse
• synonymgo back on
• synonymknife
• antonymkeep faith
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• neighbordeceive
• neighboreat one's young
• neighborcollaborate
• neighborjilt
• neighborrat out
• neighborgive away
• neighborkiss and tell
• neighborleak
• neighborfalsify