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Betraying vs Lying - What's the difference?

betraying | lying |

As verbs the difference between betraying and lying

is that betraying is while lying is .

As nouns the difference between betraying and lying

is that betraying is betrayal while lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

betraying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • betrayal
  • * (Sir Walter Raleigh)
    • Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings , oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings

    lying

    English

    (wikipedia lying)

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 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..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?