betray
/bɪˈtɹeɪ/ verb B2- 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.
- 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.
- To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
- To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.
- 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.
- To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
- To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
He/she/it betrays · Past betrayed · Past participle betrayed · -ing form betraying
Verb forms
- Base form
- betray
- He/she/it
- betrays
- Past
- betrayed
- Past participle
- betrayed
- -ing form
- betraying
From the library
Because I was all but your brother in blood, I promise that when I am a man among men I will not betray ye to men as ye have betrayed me.” He kicked the fire with his foot, and the sparks flew up.
But betray too eager curiosity she would not.
“No, I wasn’t crying over your piece,” said Marilla, who would have scorned to be betrayed into such weakness by any poetry stuff.
She was perfectly sensible that he never had: but she wished to see whether he would betray any consciousness of what had passed between the Bingleys and Jane; and she thought he looked a little confused as he answered that he had never been so fortunate as to meet Miss Bennet.
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