betray with a kiss
Of Judas, to kiss Jesus so as to discreetly signal to Roman soldiers that Jesus was the Christ, and as such was the one to be arrested.
ADJ.
known, last, sooner, true
VERB + BETRAY
asking, die, going, shouldn't, starve, translate, won
BETRAY + NOUN
country, friends, man's, one's, others, person
PREP.
than, than
ADV.
rather
verb
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.
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.
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.
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.
verb — cause someone to believe an untruth
verb — reveal unintentionally
verb — disappoint, prove undependable to
verb — deliver to an enemy by treachery
Of Judas, to kiss Jesus so as to discreetly signal to Roman soldiers that Jesus was the Christ, and as such was the one to be arrested.
An officer betrayed the city.
Wiktionaryto betray a person or a cause
WiktionaryQuresh betrayed Sunil to marry Nuzhat.
WiktionaryA few words may betray a man's true character.
Tatoeba · #29124John is not a man to betray you.
Tatoeba · #52728You are barking up the wrong tree by asking me to betray my country.
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