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
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de Montaigne
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
Ovid
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster
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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