English English Dictionary

To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.

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

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.

The act or the result of betraying.

of Betray

One who, or that which, betrays.

of Betray

Betrayal.

To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim.

of Betrim

of Betrim

To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.

To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.

To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.

The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance.

of Betroth

of Betroth

The act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal.

To trust or intrust.

The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.