betray
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English betrayen, bitrayen (“to commit an act of treason against”), equivalent to be- + tray (“to betray”).
Middle English bi- is from Old English be- (“be-”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- (“be-”), from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near, by”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“at, near”). Compare also traitor, treason, tradition. The modern sense “to disclose, discover, reveal unintentionally” is due to influence from or merger with English bewray (“to reveal, divulge”), which is similar in sound and meaning. The similarity with German betrügen, Dutch bedriegen, from Proto-West Germanic *bidreugan (“to betray, deceive”), is coincidental.
Base: tray#Etymology_4
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: betrays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: betraying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: betrayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: betrayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: An officer betrayed the city.
He betrayed his own sister to the secret police.
gloss: To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to betray a person or a cause
Quresh betrayed Sunil to marry Nuzhat.
My eyes have been betraying me since I turned sixty.
I maruell I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betrayes his maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I knovve vvhat my boy hath don; Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out.
gloss: To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The dead leap at the throat, destroy
The meaning of the day; dark forms
Have scaled your walls, and spies betray
Old secrets to amorphous swarms.
gloss: To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.
Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast [Josh] Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.
Again, to take a less extreme example, there is no denying that although the dialects of northern France retained their fundamentally Romance character, they betray many Germanic influences in phonetics and vocabulary, […]
gloss: To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: assfuck
betray
burn
cop out
cross out
cross up
double-cross
do someone dirty
do the dirty on
false
go back on
knife
let down
play someone false
quisle
renegade
sell
sell the pass
sell down the river
sell down
sell out
stab in the back
swike
traitorize
turncoat
Antonyms: keep faith
Related words: throw to the wolves
throw under the bus
betrayer
deceive
Derived words: betrayable
betrayal
betrayee
betrayer
betrayment
betray with a kiss
rebetray
unbetray
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разкривам
roman: razkrivam
lang: Catalan
word: delatar
lang: Danish
word: røbe
lang: Dutch
word: verraden
lang: Dutch
word: onthullen
lang: Dutch
word: verspreken
lang: Finnish
word: paljastaa
lang: Finnish
word: kavaltaa
lang: German
word: verraten
lang: Hungarian
word: elárul
lang: Italian
word: rivelare
lang: Latin
word: dētegō
lang: Latin
word: prōdō
lang: Latin
word: oleō
lang: Persian
word: لو دادن
roman: low dâdan
lang: Portuguese
word: revelar
lang: Romanian
word: descoperi
lang: Romanian
word: afla
lang: Russian
word: выдава́ть
roman: vydavátʹ
lang: Russian
word: вы́дать
roman: výdatʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: odati
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pronaći
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ìzdati
lang: Slovene
word: izdati
lang: Spanish
word: delatar
lang: Spanish
word: demostrar
lang: Turkish
word: ele vermek