betrayed English
Verb
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(betray)
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betray English
Verb
( en verb)
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.
Derived terms
* betrayer
* betrayal
Synonyms
* (to prove faithless or treacherous) sell
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breached English
Verb
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(breach)
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breach Noun
( es)
A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture; a fissure.
* 1599 , , Henry V , act 3, scene 1:
- "Once more unto the breach , dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead."
A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
* Shakespeare
- There's fallen between him and my lord / An unkind breach .
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
- A clear breach''' is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean '''breach is when everything on deck is swept away.
* Bible, 2 Sam. v. 20
- The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters.
* 1719 , :
- I cast my eye to the stranded vessel, when, the breach and froth of the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far of; and considered, Lord! how was it possible I could get on shore.
A breaking out upon; an assault.
* Bible, 1 Chron. xiii. 11
- The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza.
(archaic) A bruise; a wound.
* Bible, Leviticus xxiv. 20
- breach for breach, eye for eye
(archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
(legal) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
(figurative) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
* 2013 September 28, , " London Is Special, but Not That Special ," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3, § 12:
- But were the poet to make a total difression from his subject, and introduce a new actor, nowise connected with the personages, the imagination, feeling a breach in transition, would enter coldly into the new scene;
Synonyms
* break
* rift
* rupture
* gap
Derived terms
* breach of contract
* breach of promise
* breach of the peace
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Verb
( es)
To make a breach in.
- They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.
To violate or break.
* 2000 , Mobile Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States, Justice Stevens.
- "I therefore agree with the Court that the Government did breach its contract with petitioners in failing to approve, within 30 days of its receipt, the plan of exploration petitioners submitted."
(transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
(of a whale) To leap clear out of the water.
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