betrayed
Meaning of betrayed
verb, past tense
- 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
- 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):
Meaning be sexually unfaithful to (one's regular partner):
Meaning act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage:
Meaning inform against:
Meaning inform on (someone):
Meaning touch or feel with the fingers:
Meaning do casual or occasional work:
Meaning (of liquid) form a pool on the ground or another surface:
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:
Meaning report (an offence or crime):
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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