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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Betray
v. i.
To turn informer; to betray a secret.
a.
Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.
n.
One who, or that which, betrays.
imp. & p. p.
of Betray
v. t.
To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.
n.
The act or the result of betraying.
n.
Betrayal.
v. i.
To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
v. t.
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.
n.
The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.
n.
Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.
v. t.
To betray; to deceive.
a.
Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.
n.
A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress.
prep.
Denoting relation to something that comprehends or includes, that represents or designates, that furnishes a cover, pretext, pretense, or the like; as, he betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep.
v. t.
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.
n.
One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
n.
Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.
v. t.
To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
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