betray

Meaning of betray

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.
    My eyes have been betraying me since I turned sixty.
  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 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.
  5. To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
  6. To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

Information about betray

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of betray is: betrays.
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Hyphenation of betray

be-tray

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • betray is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

betray synonyms

Meaning bewray:

bewray

Meaning sell:

sell

Meaning fail:

fail

Meaning cheat on:

cheat, cuckold, wander

Meaning denounce:

denounce, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag

Meaning deceive:

deceive

Translation of betray

Anagrams of betray

baryte

Words that rhyme with betray

Tray, tray, subtray, DirectRay, detray, icetray, prebetray, rebetray, unbetray, plugtray, ashtray, washtray, importray, portray, pourtray, preportray, astray, estray, reastray, stray, unastray, Rattray, outray

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