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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.transitive
- An officer betrayed the city.
- He betrayed his own sister to the secret police.
- 2
To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.transitive
- 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.transitive
- 4
To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.transitive
- 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.transitive
- Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.
- 6
To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.transitive
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To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.transitive
syn. assfuck · betray · burn · cop out · cross out · cross up · double-cross · do someone dirty · do the dirty on · false · go back on · knife
ant. keep faith