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(betray)

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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 :

Again, to take a less extreme example, there is no denying that although the dialects of northern France retained their fundamentally Romance character, they betray many Germanic influences in phonetics and vocabulary, [...]

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.

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* 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:

Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..