Betray vs Bilk - What's the difference?
betray | bilk |
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. e.g. Quresh betrayed Sunil to marry Nuzhat
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.
To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally; to bewray.
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* 1966 , Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch, French rural history :
To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
(cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
(obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
*2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 615:
*:They also perpetrate nonviolent crimes like bilking elderly couples out of their life savings and running a business with ruthless disregard for the welfare of the workforce or stakeholders.
As verbs the difference between betray and bilk
is that betray is 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 eg quresh betrayed sunil to marry nuzhat while bilk is to spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.As a noun bilk is
(cribbage) the spoiling of someone's score in the crib.betray
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(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core. }}
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