verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
betray your country (= be disloyal, especially by giving secrets to other countries )
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He betrayed his country for the sake of communism.
betray your ideals (= to do something that is not acceptable according to your ideals )
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He argues that Lenin betrayed his revolutionary ideals.
betray/compromise your principles (= do something that is against your principles )
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I knew I could lie to help him, but it would be betraying my principles.
betrayed...trust (= did something bad even though he trusted you )
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You betrayed your father’s trust .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
never
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In truth, he was never betrayed .
■ NOUN
body
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Would her body betray her and fight to preserve its fleeing spirit, causing lingering agony instead of swift and final oblivion?
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They could see that her body was already betraying her.
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But his body betrayed his words as he dressed for the trip home.
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Her body began to betray her.
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But as John Swensson aged, his body began to betray him.
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But my body always betrayed me.
confidence
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I can't tell you what Melanie was asking me because I don't betray other people's confidences .
country
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But why should some one murder him decades later because he betrayed his country and worked for the Soviet Union?
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You have betrayed your country and your religion.
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I thought we would all rather betray our country than our friends.
emotion
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But by not so much as a flicker of an eyebrow did he betray his emotions .
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Clare suddenly noticed that Elinor's hands were gripping the bedclothes, betraying the emotion hidden by her quiet words.
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Her handsome features betrayed no emotion as Julia stood aside to give her passage.
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The sergeant glanced across at Blanche but her face betrayed no emotion at all.
face
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He continued to watch as Gentle got up, his face betraying a mournful empathy with Gentle's bruising.
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Their faces betrayed no sign of human warmth.
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His eyes were bright and his face betrayed a frustrated energy.
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His face of course betrayed his age.
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Karelius hoped his face did not betray him.
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Grey, thinning hair and a tired face betray years of active service.
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Her clear face betrayed no grief or anxiety at all.
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His face betrayed him to McAllister.
fact
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Never must she put herself in a position where she might be tempted to betray the fact that she loved him.
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The sometimes inattentive audience only betrayed the fact that they were as much participants in the total popular-cultural spectacle as the performers.
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Instead she stood with her eyes closed, lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her.
ideal
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He ridicules but secretly envies Saburov, who accepts professional obscurity and poverty rather than compromising his talent by betraying his artistic ideals .
people
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They practiced deception and betrayed their own people , and so created nothing that could be built upon.
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Because it's being betrayed by the people who are meant to govern it.
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The people who betrayed her people.
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The result is that we have been steadily betraying mentally-ill people for at least a century.
presence
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A thin squeaking betrayed the presence of two baby gold crests, precariously balanced on the branch of a larch.
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Or did they simply betray the presence of a lone woman in a dark deserted place?
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He veered to his right, not wanting to betray his presence with dust from the dry mud of the lane.
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He held his breath, not wanting to make the slightest sound that might betray his presence .
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The floor was covered with large red and white vinyl tiles, rubbed in ridges that betrayed the presence of flagstones underneath.
principle
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Who had persuaded the other to defect, to betray his fundamental principles in the name of personal loyalty?
trust
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The girl was betraying the trust that her parents had instilled into her all her young life.
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Adrian is shocked that Yasmin betrayed his trust .
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No wonder then that on the one occasion when television betrays his trust , his world fell apart.
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How could television betray Homer's trust ?
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Estrada has been charged with bribery, corruption, violating the constitution and betraying the public trust .
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He was absolved, neither waking nor sleeping had he betrayed his trust .
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As imperial portraits attracted faith, so images of emperors who had betrayed their subjects' trust were treated with contempt.
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I couldn't stay with the Sisters because of Andrew; it would be betraying their trust .
voice
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His voice did not betray the slightly perturbed current of his thoughts.
woman
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But a man still, who could betray one woman with another.
■ VERB
feel
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In his heart he felt he was betraying something very new and delicate, but he could not stop himself.
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The civil rights workers felt betrayed .
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He had felt betrayed by the visit, after hoping to be lifted out of his crushing depression by it.
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His inconstancy infuriated liberals, who felt betrayed , and Republicans, whose positions he seemed to be stealing.
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I felt she had betrayed me and that I had no home.
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I really felt betrayed by my parents at that point.
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Some one he could want without feeling he was betraying all he believed in.
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The West was shocked and felt betrayed .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Barker's comments on Germany betrayed a woeful ignorance of history and recent politics.
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Conservatives felt betrayed when Bush raised taxes.
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Greene was denounced for betraying his Catholic beliefs and siding with the Communists.
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He betrayed his friends in order to save his own life.
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His words were calm, but his voice betrayed his very real concern and anxiety.
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I still have bitter feelings for Robert. What can I say? He completely betrayed my trust.
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If he feels any bitterness, his voice doesn't betray it.
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My husband lied to me and betrayed me.
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Olga's best friend betrayed her to the secret police.
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The documents betray a deep anti-Semitism in the country.
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The former federal agent betrayed his country and gave away vital military secrets.
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The new government has betrayed the ideals of the revolution.
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There are people who are prepared to betray their country for money.
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When I heard what she had said about me I felt angry and betrayed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had felt betrayed by the visit, after hoping to be lifted out of his crushing depression by it.
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He is the golden youth whose promise is betrayed by his base appetites.
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Not by the slightest word or look did she betray to Miss Miggs that she knew she couldn't read.
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They could see that her body was already betraying her.
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Women can not betray me, for I have never made the mistake of trusting them.