Betray: Definition and part of speech

Betray

  1. v. t. To show or to indicate; — said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. v. t. To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
  5. v. t. To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
  6. v. t. To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
  7. v. t. To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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