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Betray

Verb

Définitions

1.VerbTo 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."
2.VerbTo 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."
3.VerbTo violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
4.VerbTo disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.
5.VerbTo 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."
6.VerbTo mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
7.VerbTo lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
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