betrayed

Meaning of betrayed

verb, past tense
  1. expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy.
    a double agent who betrayed some 400 British and French agents to the Germans
  2. unintentionally reveal; be evidence of.
    she drew a deep breath that betrayed her indignation

Middle English: from be- ‘thoroughly’ + obsolete tray ‘betray’, from Old French trair, based on Latin tradere ‘hand over’.

Information about betrayed

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of betrayed

be-trayed

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • betrayed is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

betrayed synonyms

Meaning desert or let down (someone):

fail

Meaning be sexually unfaithful to (one's regular partner):

deceive

Meaning act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage:

cheat

Meaning inform against:

denounce

Meaning inform on (someone):

shop

Meaning touch or feel with the fingers:

finger

Meaning do casual or occasional work:

job

Meaning (of liquid) form a pool on the ground or another surface:

pool

Meaning a flat length of wood or other rigid material, attached to a wall or forming part of a piece of furniture, that provides a surface for the storage or display of objects:

shelf

Meaning report (an offence or crime):

delate

Words that rhyme with betrayed

bayed, embayed, unembayed, decayed, nondecayed, semidecayed, undecayed, bendayed, hobdayed, holidayed, fayed, hayed, pochayed, sashayed, shayed, unhayed, deejayed, okayed, alayed, allayed, belayed, clayed, delayed, displayed, downplayed, endplayed, flayed, inlayed, interplayed, layed, misplayed, outplayed, overlayed, overplayed, parlayed, pipeclayed, played, redisplayed, relayed, replayed, roleplayed, slayed, splayed, unallayed, unclayed, undelayed, underplayed, undisplayed, unflayed, unplayed

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