Crossword-Solution: BETRAY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Betray | 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. |
| Betray | 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. |
| Betray | v. t. | To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known. |
| Betray | v. t. | To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally. |
| Betray | v. t. | To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin. |
| Betray | v. t. | To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon. |
| Betray | v. t. | To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with BETRAY (5)
The response was unanimous and in thunder-tones—“NO!” “Will you succor and protect him as a brother-man—a resident of the old Bay State?” “YES!” shouted the whole mass, with an energy so startling, that the ruthless tyrants south of Mason and Dixon’s line might almost have heard the mighty burst of feeling, and recognized it as the pledge of an invincible determination, on the part of those who gave it, never to betray him that wanders, but to hide the outcast, and firmly to abide the consequences.
What then, thou knowest, and yet willst not speak! Wouldst thou betray us and destroy the State? TEIRESIAS.
Yet fear not for him! Think not that I shall interfere with Heaven’s own method of retribution, or, to my own loss, betray him to the gripe of human law.
You lean back and you say to yourself, ‘No, _that_ voice will never betray.’ _Treulich geführt, treulich bewacht_.” Archie looked envyingly at Fred’s excited, triumphant face.
Had anyone told her a week ago that she would stoop to spy upon her friends, that she would betray a brave and unsuspecting man into the hands of a relentless enemy, she would have laughed the idea to scorn.
Quotes with BETRAY (3)
You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you - they'll damn you. You loved me - what right had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that Go…
Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; F…
But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. I have an idea that one day it might be possible, I thought onc…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 46 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).