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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for betray

to be treacherous to

to cause to accept what is false, especially by trickery or misrepresentation

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Synonyms for betray

deliver to an enemy by treachery

disappoint, prove undependable to

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be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

give away information about somebody

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DAP will never betray its principles for New Malaysia, Lim Kit Siang said today.
Jesus is aware that someone in his inner circle will betray him.
I still like him and kind of want to have a little something with him, but would never betray my husband.
If one betray's one's God one essentially betrays oneself.
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"Betray the Night" tells the story of Pinaria, wife of famed poet Publius Ovidius Naso, as she tries to bring her exiled husband home.
When the disciple whom Jesus loved asks, "Who is it that will betray you?" Jesus points out Judas.
Anyone who lies to and betrays the people he or she loves will inevitably lie to and betray a public he or she does not not really know, he said.
If Big Government Republicans behave so irresponsibly and betray the people who elected them, while we blindly, slavishly continue backing them, we establish that there is no price to pay for violating conservative principles.
According to Badiou, there are three ways to betray the Event: disavowal, trying to follow old patterns as if nothing had happened; false imitation of the event of truth; and a direct "ontologization" of the event of truth, that is, its reduction to a new positive order of being.
The last words our hero heard before his death were: "Why did you betray socialism?!" Maybe that's why I sort of like the image.