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What (who) is Betray - definition

BREAKING OR VIOLATION OF A PRESUMPTIVE CONTRACT, TRUST, OR CONFIDENCE

Double cross (betrayal); Betryal; Betrayer; Political treachery; Backstabbing; Betray; Backstab; Back stabbing; Political betrayal

betray

(betrays, betraying, betrayed)

1.

If you betray someone who loves or trusts you, your actions hurt and disappoint them.

When I tell someone I will not betray his confidence I keep my word...

The President betrayed them when he went back on his promise not to raise taxes.

VERB: V n, V n

• betrayer (betrayers)

She was her friend and now calls her a betrayer.

N-COUNT

2.

If someone betrays their country or their friends, they give information to an enemy, putting their country's security or their friends' safety at risk.

They offered me money if I would betray my associates...

The group were informers, and they betrayed the plan to the Germans.

VERB: V n, V n to n

• betrayer

'Traitor!' she screamed. 'Betrayer of England!'

N-COUNT

3.

If you betray an ideal or your principles, you say or do something which goes against those beliefs.

We betray the ideals of our country when we support capital punishment.

VERB: V n

• betrayer

Babearth regarded the middle classes as the betrayers of the Revolution.

N-COUNT

4.

If you betray a feeling or quality, you show it without intending to.

She studied his face, but it betrayed nothing...

? conceal

VERB: V n

betray

v. (B) the informer betrayed them to the police

betray

v. a.

1.

Deliver up (by breach of trust), give up treacherously, give over to the foe.

2.

Violate, break, prove recreant to, let perish, be false to.

3.

Violate the confidence of, disclose the secrets of, deceive by treachery.

4.

Divulge, reveal, discover, expose, tell, blab, show, make known.

5.

Display, exhibit, manifest, show, indicate, imply, betoken, argue, evince, expose, reveal, uncover.

6.

Mislead, lure, ensnare, entrap, beguile, delude, inveigle.

7.

Seduce, ruin, corrupt, undo, lead astray.

Wikipedia

Betrayal

Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations. Often betrayal is the act of supporting a rival group, or it is a complete break from previously decided upon or presumed norms by one party from the others. Someone who betrays others is commonly called a traitor or betrayer. Betrayal is also a commonly used literary element, also used in other fiction like films and TV series, and is often associated with or used as a plot twist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal

Examples of use of Betray

1. "That you don‘t betray us and we don‘t betray you," bin Laden responded, and offered him a plot of land, Hubayshi said.

2. Thought for Today: "When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself." _ Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish–born American Nobel Prize–winning author (1'04–1''1).

3. And they betray with pleasure those who are considered disposable.

4. Sayed is proud, but his words betray some desperation.

5. All these questions betray an element of derision.