Word Finder - betray

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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.

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an officer betrayed the city

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To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.

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My eyes have been betraying me since I turned sixty.

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To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.

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To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.

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Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.

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To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.

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To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

You didn't betray my trust.

I wouldn't be here if I thought you would betray me.

No one will ever betray me again.

How could he betray her trust so utterly - for the sole purpose of proving a point to Claudette?

I wanted to talk to you, but I didn't want to betray Morino.

He won't betray his brothers.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Not only am I a rerun, but I'll betray you.

The first to betray the Council and serve the Dark One?

But I'm sure she was pleased he abided by her wishes and didn't betray her life to her family.

Sasha had chosen to serve the Dark One and betray the Council and their father.

They're setting you up to betray you.

Born to betray any master he served.

Despite being brutally tortured, he didn't betray anyone.

Of all the Somali the Rahanwin betray the largest infusion of negroid blood.

He said that the decision to remake the 2003 TV drama did not betray a poverty of imagination.

He'll break things off with you before he would ever betray you.

Rubi and Alejandro fall in love, but Rubi's ambitions betray her when she learns that Alejandro is not wealthy.

It is men's opinions or unwarranted judgments about things, say the sceptics, which betray them into desire, and painful effort and disappointment.

They held the "Lord's Prayer" in high respect as the most 1 These betray their Gnostic (Marcianite) spirit by the antiJewish tone of the oldest MSS.

Winning the confidence of Charles of Lorraine and of Arnulf, archbishop of Reims, he was restored to his see; but he soon took the opportunity to betray Laon, together with Charles and Arnulf, into the hands of Hugh Capet.

Her correspondence in cipher from thence with her English agents abroad, intercepted by Walsingham and deciphered by his secretary, gave eager encouragement to the design for a Spanish invasion of England Under the prince of Parma, - an enterprise in which she would do her utmost to make her son take part, and in case of his refusal would induce the Catholic nobles of Scotland to betray him into the hands of Philip, from whose tutelage he should be released only on her demand, or if after her death he should wish to return, nor then unless he had become a Catholic. But even these patriotic and maternal schemes to consign her child and re-consign the kingdom to the keeping of the Inquisition, incarnate in the widower of Mary Tudor, were superseded by the attraction of a conspiracy against the throne and life of Elizabeth.

A pension he had defined as pay given to a state hireling to betray his country; a pensioner as a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey a master.

At Freeport, on the Wisconsin boundary, on the 27th of August, Lincoln answered questions put to him by Douglas, and by his questions forced Douglas to "betray the South" by his enunciation of the "Freeport heresy," that, no matter what the character of Congressional legislation or the Supreme Court's decision "slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere unless it is supported by local police regulations."

At the very outset the two sources betray their divergent origin and point of view.

No longer needing Catholic assistance, James threw over his mother, with whom he had been intriguing, and sent the beautiful Master of Gray to betray Mary's secrets to Elizabeth.

The perfect man thus described will not be angry with the wrongdoer; he will only pity his erring brother; for anger in such a case would only betray that he too thought the wrong-doer gained a substantial blessing by his wrongful act, instead of being, as he is, utterly ruined.

That the tenets and practices of so characteristic a faith as Buddhism, so long prevalent in India, cannot but have left their marks on Hindu life and belief may readily be assumed, though it is not so easy to lay one's finger on the precise features that might seem to betray such an influence.

He continued the policy of double-dealing and treachery, deceiving his ministers as at the treaty of Dover, by pretending to support Holland and Spain while he was secretly engaged to Louis to betray them.

But it is characteristic of his strong nature that, where he does betray any sign of human sympathy or tenderness, it is for those who by their weakness and position are dependent on others for their protection - as for " the peasant boy with the little dog, his playfellow," 1 or for " the home-sick lad from the Sabine highlands, who sighs for his mother whom he has not seen for a long time, and for the little hut and the familiar kids."2 If Juvenal is to be ranked as a great moralist, it is not for his greatness and consistency as a thinker on moral questions.

It contains imitations of Theocritus, but the tone and the language betray a later writer.

Sarpi told Dohna that he greatly disliked saying mass, and celebrated it as seldom as possible, but that he was compelled to do so, as he would otherwise seem to admit the validity of the papal prohibition, and thus betray the cause of Venice.

According to the common story, she offered to betray the citadel, if the Sabines would give her what they wore on their left arms, meaning their bracelets; instead of this, keeping to the letter of their promise, they threw their shields upon her and crushed her to death.

Simylus, a Greek elegiac poet, makes Tarpeia betray the Capitol to a king of the Gauls.

The peasantry, however, are far from dull, and betray much shrewdness where their interests are concerned.

Did not Sir William Stanley, the best paid of those who betrayed Richard III., afterwards lose his head for a deliberate plot to betray Henry VII.?

But the biblical materials worked up in the doctrine betray little sign of any except a religious interest.

The forms that betray African affinities are naturally to be found chiefly in the south.

The alternative – that her own body was about to betray her to the devil – wasn't something she could handle.

His hands on her arms made her body betray her again.

Body language announced that he was emotionally reacting – something his facial expression didn't betray.

As an observer, I can tell you there's a great deal of motivation for someone in his position to betray you.

He would betray her, and he would kill her, but she suspected even he was not brave enough to cross the king of Landis, whose cruelty was known far and wide.

Taran, whose golden eyes made her blood heat and whose touch brought a warm tingle of anticipation to her body…it was ironic that the two men she loved in her life would betray her.

Ready the army to accompany me to Tiyan, in case Taran seeks to betray me.

And all the more furious at anyone who would betray Tiyan and its queen.

Or trust me – I won't betray you.

Rommel therefore did not betray conspirators who suggested to him that he should become head of state once Hitler was overthrown.

Jesus convinces Judas to betray him and his own crucifixion swiftly follows.

To maintain that they must intervene is to betray ignorance of the elementary principles of prophetic interpretation.