Word
Betray
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
be-tray
Definition
- v. t. - To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or
fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly;
as, an officer betrayed the city.
- v. t. - To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or
one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a
cause.
- v. t. - To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or
that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
- v. t. - To disclose or discover, as something which prudence
would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
- v. t. - To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to
lead into error or sin.
- v. t. - To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise
of marriage) and then abandon.
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