Betray

/bəˈtɹeɪ/

verb

  1. 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. To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.

    My eyes have been betraying me since I turned sixty.

  3. To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.

Synonyms: sell

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