betray
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
An officer betrayed the city.
He betrayed his own sister to the secret police.
- 2.
(transitive)To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
to betray a person or a cause
Quresh betrayed Sunil to marry Nuzhat.
My eyes have been betraying me since I turned sixty.
Đồng nghĩa: sell, quisle, traitorize
- 3.
(transitive)To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
- 4.
(transitive)To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.
Đồng nghĩa: give away
- 5.
(transitive)To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.
Đồng nghĩa: give away
- 6.
(transitive)To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
- 7.
(transitive)To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
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From Middle English betrayen, bitrayen (to commit an act of treason against), equivalent to be- + tray#Etymology_4.