Betray

Quick meaning: Betray is a verb meaning (transitive) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.

Meaning

(transitive) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
2. (transitive) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
3. (transitive) To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.
4. (transitive) To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
5. (transitive) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
6. (transitive) To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

Example Sentences

An officer betrayed the city.

to betray a person or a cause

Quresh betrayed Sunil to marry Nuzhat.

He betrayed his own sister to the secret police.

Word Forms

• betrays
• betraying
• betrayed

Synonyms for betray

Depending on context, synonyms include assfuck, burn, cop out, double-cross, false, knife.

Antonyms for betray

Common opposites include undeceive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bewray, cheat, deceive, denounce, fail, wander.

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