Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To disclose, divulge, or betray.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To accuse; malign.
- To reveal; divulge; make known; declare.
- To disclose or reveal (the identity or the secrets of a person) perfidiously or prejudicially; betray; expose.
- To reveal or disclose unintentionally or incidentally; show the presence or true character of; show or make visible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or Archaic To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray.
- transitive verb To soil. See
beray .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, obsolete To expose a deception.
- verb transitive, archaic To
accuse ;malign ; speak evil of. - verb transitive To
reveal ;divulge ; make known;declare ;inform . - verb transitive To
expose a person,rat someone out. - verb transitive To
divulge a secret. - verb transitive To disclose or reveal (usually with reference to a person's identity or true character)
perfidiously , prejudicially, or to one'sdiscredit or harm;betray ;expose . - verb transitive To reveal or
disclose unintentionally or incidentally;show the presence or true character of; show ormake visible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb reveal unintentionally
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Atli shall bewray thee, and cast thee into a worm-close, and thereafter shall Atli and his
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But in thy love-making thou hast not bethought thee that keep her to thyself thou mayst not while I am above ground, save thou bewray me, and join thee to my foemen and thine.
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Here comes the queen, whose looks bewray her anger:
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“Villain!” said Prince John, “thou wouldst not bewray our counsel?”
Ivanhoe 2004
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Thereat laughed they all right jocundly only young Stephen and sir Leopold which never durst laugh too open by reason of a strange humour which he would not bewray and also for that he rued for her that bare whoso she might be or wheresoever.
Ulysses 2003
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O what an evaporation wherewith to bewray the masks or mufflers of young mangy queans.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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O what an evaporation wherewith to bewray the masks or mufflers of young mangy queans.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
Isaiah 16. 1999
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Such as the murder of us twain may evermore bewray.
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
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Thrasileon, the honour of our comfort, received his death so patiently, that he would not bewray the league betweene us, either by crying, howling, or any other meanes, but being torn with dogs and wounded with weapons, did yeeld forth a dolefull cry, more like unto a beast than a man.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
bilby commented on the word bewray
"VOLUMNIA: Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment
And state of bodies would bewray what life
We have led since thy exile."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 29, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word bewray
"I fancied it was caution, but in truth it was terror—I near bewrayed myself."
The Accidental Highwayman by Ben Tripp, p 143
January 12, 2015