betray
betray has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.
Definitions
- 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.
- 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.
- v. t.. To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
- v. t.. To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
- v. t.. To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
- v. t.. To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
- v. t.. To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
- v.. give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"
- v.. cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house"
- v.. reveal unintentionally; "Her smile betrayed her true feelings"
- v.. disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"
- v.. deliver to an enemy by treachery; "Judas sold Jesus"; "The spy betrayed his country"