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| betraying | |
| 1. n. betrayal |  |
| betray | |
| 1. v. 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. v. To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive. | |
| to betray a person or a cause | |
| Quresh betrayed Sunil to marry Nuzhat. | |
| My eyes have been betraying me since I turned sixty. | |
| 3. v. To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known. | |
| 4. v. To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally. | |
| 5. v. To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin. | |
| 6. v. To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon. | |
