BETRAYS Synonyms: 109 Similar and Opposite Words

betrays

verb

present tense third-person singular of betray

as in crosses

to be unfaithful or disloyal to childhood friends of movie stars often betray them by telling their secrets to the supermarket tabloids

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as in reveals

to make known (something abstract) through outward signs his face betrayed his exasperation with his nosy neighbor

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as in tempts

to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage she was betrayed by a false show of friendship into covering up the crime

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Recent Examples of betrays On casting Murgia, Gaspar-Oliveri said, the actor had a face that betrays him a lot. —

Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 May 2026 Don’t skip eye cream The under-eye area is often the first place that betrays a late night or an early alarm. —

Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026 Sometimes a small chink in your camouflage betrays you to a wary tom. —

Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026 After Sugar betrays her, Barbara cuts her friend off for decades, despite missing her deeply. —

Isle McElroy, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026 But even this was a poor comparison for sumo’s place in the racial politics of Japan today; boxing, after all, was brought to America from England, while sumo, like Kabuki, is one of Japan’s few expressive institutions whose folklore betrays little trace of outside influence. —

Joshua Hunt, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 Low-key and reserved on and off the course, the 23-year-old rarely betrays emotion. —

Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026 The silliness betrays the seriousness. —

J. Aaron Sanders, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026 What has unfolded in Minneapolis this past month betrays our most basic values as Americans. —

Ted Johnson, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2026

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But Stratos wasn’t designed to use a combination of energy sources; as a state official remarked at an April 22 meeting of the Box Elder County Commission, the project will be powered 100 percent off the Ruby Pipeline, a natural gas line that crosses northern Utah from Wyoming en route to Oregon.

— Mary Jane Gibson, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2026
The aforementioned first apron is less than $10 million higher than their current total roster costs, and some team building restrictions come when a team is hard capped at the first apron or crosses it in team salary.

— Tony East, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026