BETRAY


Meaning of BETRAY in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

betray your country (= be disloyal, especially by giving secrets to other countries )

He betrayed his country for the sake of communism.

betray your ideals (= to do something that is not acceptable according to your ideals )

He argues that Lenin betrayed his revolutionary ideals.

betray/compromise your principles (= do something that is against your principles )

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 )

You betrayed your father’s trust .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

never

In truth, he was never betrayed .

■ NOUN

body

Would her body betray her and fight to preserve its fleeing spirit, causing lingering agony instead of swift and final oblivion?

They could see that her body was already betraying her.

But his body betrayed his words as he dressed for the trip home.

Her body began to betray her.

But as John Swensson aged, his body began to betray him.

But my body always betrayed me.

confidence

I can't tell you what Melanie was asking me because I don't betray other people's confidences .

country

But why should some one murder him decades later because he betrayed his country and worked for the Soviet Union?

You have betrayed your country and your religion.

I thought we would all rather betray our country than our friends.

emotion

But by not so much as a flicker of an eyebrow did he betray his emotions .

Clare suddenly noticed that Elinor's hands were gripping the bedclothes, betraying the emotion hidden by her quiet words.

Her handsome features betrayed no emotion as Julia stood aside to give her passage.

The sergeant glanced across at Blanche but her face betrayed no emotion at all.

face

He continued to watch as Gentle got up, his face betraying a mournful empathy with Gentle's bruising.

Their faces betrayed no sign of human warmth.

His eyes were bright and his face betrayed a frustrated energy.

His face of course betrayed his age.

Karelius hoped his face did not betray him.

Grey, thinning hair and a tired face betray years of active service.

Her clear face betrayed no grief or anxiety at all.

His face betrayed him to McAllister.

fact

Never must she put herself in a position where she might be tempted to betray the fact that she loved him.

The sometimes inattentive audience only betrayed the fact that they were as much participants in the total popular-cultural spectacle as the performers.

Instead she stood with her eyes closed, lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her.

ideal

He ridicules but secretly envies Saburov, who accepts professional obscurity and poverty rather than compromising his talent by betraying his artistic ideals .

people

They practiced deception and betrayed their own people , and so created nothing that could be built upon.

Because it's being betrayed by the people who are meant to govern it.

The people who betrayed her people.

The result is that we have been steadily betraying mentally-ill people for at least a century.

presence

A thin squeaking betrayed the presence of two baby gold crests, precariously balanced on the branch of a larch.

Or did they simply betray the presence of a lone woman in a dark deserted place?

He veered to his right, not wanting to betray his presence with dust from the dry mud of the lane.

He held his breath, not wanting to make the slightest sound that might betray his presence .

The floor was covered with large red and white vinyl tiles, rubbed in ridges that betrayed the presence of flagstones underneath.

principle

Who had persuaded the other to defect, to betray his fundamental principles in the name of personal loyalty?

trust

The girl was betraying the trust that her parents had instilled into her all her young life.

Adrian is shocked that Yasmin betrayed his trust .

No wonder then that on the one occasion when television betrays his trust , his world fell apart.

How could television betray Homer's trust ?

Estrada has been charged with bribery, corruption, violating the constitution and betraying the public trust .

He was absolved, neither waking nor sleeping had he betrayed his trust .

As imperial portraits attracted faith, so images of emperors who had betrayed their subjects' trust were treated with contempt.

I couldn't stay with the Sisters because of Andrew; it would be betraying their trust .

voice

His voice did not betray the slightly perturbed current of his thoughts.

woman

But a man still, who could betray one woman with another.

■ VERB

feel

In his heart he felt he was betraying something very new and delicate, but he could not stop himself.

The civil rights workers felt betrayed .

He had felt betrayed by the visit, after hoping to be lifted out of his crushing depression by it.

His inconstancy infuriated liberals, who felt betrayed , and Republicans, whose positions he seemed to be stealing.

I felt she had betrayed me and that I had no home.

I really felt betrayed by my parents at that point.

Some one he could want without feeling he was betraying all he believed in.

The West was shocked and felt betrayed .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Barker's comments on Germany betrayed a woeful ignorance of history and recent politics.

Conservatives felt betrayed when Bush raised taxes.

Greene was denounced for betraying his Catholic beliefs and siding with the Communists.

He betrayed his friends in order to save his own life.

His words were calm, but his voice betrayed his very real concern and anxiety.

I still have bitter feelings for Robert. What can I say? He completely betrayed my trust.

If he feels any bitterness, his voice doesn't betray it.

My husband lied to me and betrayed me.

Olga's best friend betrayed her to the secret police.

The documents betray a deep anti-Semitism in the country.

The former federal agent betrayed his country and gave away vital military secrets.

The new government has betrayed the ideals of the revolution.

There are people who are prepared to betray their country for money.

When I heard what she had said about me I felt angry and betrayed.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He had felt betrayed by the visit, after hoping to be lifted out of his crushing depression by it.

He is the golden youth whose promise is betrayed by his base appetites.

Not by the slightest word or look did she betray to Miss Miggs that she knew she couldn't read.

They could see that her body was already betraying her.

Women can not betray me, for I have never made the mistake of trusting them.

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