Vocabulary
Betray
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
expose (one’s country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy.
Urdu meaning
دھوکہ دینا، دغا کرنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- To treat these workers as disposable is to betray our own humanity.
- For one, flush with cash trickling down from the centre under the NFC arrangement, the budget documents betray the absence of any serious revenue-raising efforts.
- So often are they repeated, without any actionable specifics, that those running things in Islamabad betray a slight sense of irritation upon hearing them.
- Much of this suffering was borne with patience, because responsible newspapers and journalists always knew they could not abdicate their duty or betray the public`s trust.
- Washington`s coercive tactics to strong-arm its allies into supporting an apartheid-like restructuring of the region betray its moral bankruptcy.
Synonyms
break one’s promise to, be disloyal to, be unfaithful to, break faith with, play someone false
Curator example
“a double agent who betrayed some 400 British and French agents to the Germans”
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