English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Betray
(v. t.)
To disclose or discover, as something which prudence
would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
Betray
(v. t.)
To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or
that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
Betray
(v. t.)
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.
Betrayal
(n.)
The act or the result of betraying.
Betrayed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Betray
Betrayer
(n.)
One who, or that which, betrays.
Betraying
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Betray
Betrayment
(n.)
Betrayal.
Betrim
(v. t.)
To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to
trim.
Betrimmed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Betrim
Betrimming
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Betrim
Betroth
(v. t.)
To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or
promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
Betroth
(v. t.)
To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.
Betroth
(v. t.)
To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight
one's troth to.
Betrothal
(n.)
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.
Betrothed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Betroth
Betrothing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Betroth
Betrothment
(n.)
The act of betrothing, or the state of being
betrothed; betrothal.
Betrust
(v. t.)
To trust or intrust.
Betrustment
(n.)
The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.