betrays

verb

  1. 1

    To 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. 2

    To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.

    My eyes have been betraying me since I turned sixty.
  3. 3

    To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.

  4. 4

    To 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.
  5. 5

    To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.

  6. 6

    To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

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