betray

UK /bɪˈtɹeɪ/ US /bɪˈtɹeɪ/
verb 5

Definitions

verb

1

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.

2

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.

3

To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.

4

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.

5

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.

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