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US
/bɪˈtɹeɪ/
]
[ UK /bɪtɹˈeɪ/ ]
[ UK /bɪtɹˈeɪ/ ]
VERB
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deliver to an enemy by treachery
Judas sold Jesus
The spy betrayed his country -
cause someone to believe an untruth
The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house -
disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
His sense of smell failed him this time
His children failed him in the crisis
His strength finally failed him -
reveal unintentionally
Her smile betrayed her true feelings -
give away information about somebody
He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam -
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
She cheats on her husband
Might her husband be wandering?
How To Use betray In A Sentence
- Like a lot of boys born in Ireland circa 1979 and 1980, my brother too bears a name that betrays his vintage.
- The feeling of betrayal goes far deeper. Times, Sunday Times
- But emotional ferment still seething from his betrayed boyhood keeps his body churning with unruly symptoms. Times, Sunday Times
- She managed to speak without betraying her nervousness.
- They went into hiding in Katlijk, but where betrayed and fusilladed by the German oppressor.
- Theirs is a consummately selfish act, no less than a low-life betrayal of civilization.
- And, finally, pratfalls are a universal language, and Moliere never betrayed his debt to the Italian tradition of commedia dell'arte.
- And then the flesh, as it is the greatest retardment in good, it is the greatest incitement to evil, it is a bosom enemy, that betrays us to Satan, it is near us and connatural to us. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
- If cryonic preservation does indeed signal betrayal, it does so while asking much from those who would be betrayed. Times, Sunday Times
- Our legal system is fundamentally an adversary system - and this solution would betray its very nature.
