TRAITOR


Meaning of TRAITOR in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

call

They booed President Suleyman Demirel and called him a traitor for supporting a delay in the execution process.

After our car accident I called you a traitor .

Jefferson was called a traitor , and Andrew Jackson was accused of being a drunken, ignorant adulterer.

turn

He did not appear to be the type which could be persuaded to turn traitor .

The player must then decide whether to turn traitor and eliminate the partner, he added.

Of millions of men and women, only a handful had turned traitor .

Perhaps, by her action, to convince him that she had not turned traitor to the King.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

turn traitor

He did not appear to be the type which could be persuaded to turn traitor.

Of millions of men and women, only a handful had turned traitor.

Perhaps, by her action, to convince him that she had not turned traitor to the King.

The player must then decide whether to turn traitor and eliminate the partner, he added.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

At the end of the war Mata Hari was hanged as a traitor .

When he left Nicaragua for the US, he was denounced as a traitor to the revolution.

Zaragoza turned traitor when he thought the Republicans would lose the war.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A body could also be a traitor , indulging urges alien to intellect and emotion.

For that's the place where traitors ought to be.

Frequently they were outspoken wives, who were considered monstrous shrews or unnatural traitors to their husbands.

His father suffered even more when the revolutionaries decided that he was a traitor and plundered his estate worth ten thousand pounds.

Nobody's suggesting he is a traitor , he's one of our very best men.

Whether she is victim or traitor remains unknown.

Yet in the first autumn of the war he seemed neither a famous traitor nor an infamous war criminal.

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