Bewray

Quick meaning: Bewray is a verb meaning (transitive, archaic) To accuse; malign; speak evil of.

Meaning

(transitive, archaic) To accuse; malign; speak evil of.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.
2. (obsolete) To soil or befoul; to beray.

Example Sentences

His countenance bewraies he is displeasd.

Obscene with filth the varlet lies bewray’d, Fal’n in the plash his wickedness had lay’d:

Like caterpillars dangling under trees By slender threads, and swinging in the breeze, Which filthily bewray and sore disgrace The boughs in which are bred th’ unseemly race […]

A comparison with the Divine Comedy of all these versions combined bewrays many points of resemblance, and even of absolute coincidence, in the general architecture and ethical structure of hell and paradise; in the description of the tortures and rewards; […]

Word Forms

• bewrays
• bewraying
• bewrayed

Synonyms for bewray

Depending on context, synonyms include besmirch, denigrate, diss, assassinate, asperse, backbite.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include betray, deprave, abuse, vituperate, bewreak, betell.

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