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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.



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"Betray" Quotes from Famous Books



... calling to the masses, to the peasant, and the peer; He is calling to all classes, that the crucial hour is near; For each rotting throne must tremble, and fall broken in the dust, With the leaders who dissemble, and betray a ...
— Poems of Experience • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... devices; for their noble bearing, and glorious horsemanship. Their open-handed munificence made them the idols of the populace, while their lofty magnanimity, and perfect faith, gained them golden opinions from the generous and high-minded. Never were they known to decry the merits of a rival, or to betray the confidings of a friend; and the "word of an Abencerrage" was a guarantee that never ...
— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving

... will Campaspe yield the gates of her heart, nor does the artist press the attack with heated fervour. So gentle a besieger is he, that we perceive the young couple drifting into love on the stream of destiny, almost reluctant to betray their growing feelings through fear of the wrath of Alexander. Apelles is already smitten but Campaspe is still 'fancy free' when, in the artist's studio, she questions ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne

... the severest cruelties practised upon these inoffensive people, was that of requiring them to betray their friends, the Indians, under the heaviest penalties. In Acadia, the red and the white man were as brothers; no treachery, no broken faith, no over-reaching policy had severed the slightest fibre of good ...
— Acadia - or, A Month with the Blue Noses • Frederic S. Cozzens

... out into the darkness amid rooms and passages with which he considers himself familiar and suddenly—there comes a door where should be space, or space where there should be a window—and he is lost, his senses betray him, for the moment he is completely fogged, all bearings lost, possessed with the blankness that accompanies the flight ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn


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