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Meaning of betraying

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

betraying

verb

Definitions

  1. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.

    Example: an officer betrayed the city

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

    Example: My eyes have been betraying me since I turned sixty.

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

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

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

noun

Definitions

  1. Betrayal