Definition of Betray

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Betray

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.

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.

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

To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.

To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.

To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.

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Betray Quotations

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
James Madison

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Noam Chomsky

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de Montaigne

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.
Charles Horton Cooley

Betray Translations

betray in Dutch is in de steek laten, laten merken
betray in French is trahis, trahir, trahissent, trahissez, trahissons
betray in Italian is tradire
betray in Latin is prodo
betray in Spanish is traicionar

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