BETRAY

vt to lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

2. betray ·vt to disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.

3. betray ·vt to show or to indicate;

— said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.

4. betray ·vt to mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.

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

6. betray ·vt to prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.

7. betray ·vt to deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.