BETRAY
\bɪtɹˈe͡ɪ], \bɪtɹˈeɪ], \b_ɪ_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ]\
Definitions of BETRAY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
By Princeton University
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be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.
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To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.
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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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To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
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To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
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To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
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To show or to indicate; - said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
By Oddity Software
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To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.
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To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.
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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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To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
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To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
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To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
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To show or to indicate; - said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
By Noah Webster.
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To give over into the hands of an enemy by treachery; as, Judas betrayed his Master for thirty pieces of silver; to fail to be true to through fraud or unfaithfulness; as, to betray a trust; to disclose, as a secret; to deceive; to indicate or show; as, his manner betrays uneasiness.
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Betrayal, betrayer.
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Betrayed.
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Betraying.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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