betray · verb
Bedeutungen und Beispiele
Jemanden verletzen, indem man das entgegengebrachte Vertrauen missbraucht.
He felt betrayed when a private conversation appeared in a report circulated to the entire department.
Sharing her friend's secret would betray the trust on which their friendship had always depended.
The manager betrayed his employees by promising secure jobs while secretly arranging to close the factory.
She refused to betray a colleague merely to protect herself from criticism over the failed project.
Formen
- betray base form
- betrays third-person singular present
- betrayed past tense; past participle
- betraying present participle