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Betray   /bɪtrˈeɪ/   Listen
Betray

verb
(past & past part. betrayed; pres. part. betraying)
1.
Reveal unintentionally.  Synonym: bewray.
2.
Deliver to an enemy by treachery.  Synonym: sell.  "The spy betrayed his country"
3.
Disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake.  Synonym: fail.  "His strength finally failed him" , "His children failed him in the crisis"
4.
Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage.  Synonyms: cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander.  "Might her husband be wandering?"
5.
Give away information about somebody.  Synonyms: denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on.
6.
Cause someone to believe an untruth.  Synonyms: deceive, lead astray.  Antonym: undeceive.



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"Betray" Quotes from Famous Books



... on this till noon; he trimming, lifting and placing the logs—and elephants have never swung teak more splendidly—while I, with our jointed camp spade, filled in the sand. The use of an axe could not possibly betray our position as Efaw Kotee had been betrayed, because the breeze continued from him to us, and also for the equally good reason that the bite of an axe in soggy palmetto does not sound with anything like the ring that is caused by ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris

... by; the children were behind the heavy red curtains that parted off the second room. There was a great silence at first, then began a little tittering, then a little chattering, then presently a stifled explosion. Lady Barbara began to betray some restlessness; she really must see what that child ...
— Countess Kate • Charlotte M. Yonge

... vehicle. But those who pray and weep have retired into the solitude of their rooms, for God alone must receive their sighs and see their tears. The eyes which follow the queen on her last journey must not weep; the words which are shouted at her must betray no compassion. ...
— The Empress Josephine • Louise Muhlbach

... says at p. 15, "I found him actually using of such [prelates], (and, as I thought, of himself and his party likewise), the words 'They yield outwardly; to assent inwardly were to betray the faith. Yet they are called deceitful and double-dealing, because they do as much as they can, not more than they may.'" This too is a proof of my duplicity! Let this writer go with some one else, just a little ...
— Apologia pro Vita Sua • John Henry Newman

... Godfrey must not betray him: "I couldn't endure that Horace and his wife should know of my difficulties; and as to living on Aunt Harriet—never! And how could I go back to Fordborough, now that Sissy and I have parted? She would sacrifice herself for me—poor child!—out of sheer pity. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. • Various


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