(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.
(v. t.) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.
(v. t.) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
(v. t.) To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
(v. t.) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
(v. t.) To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
(v. t.) To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I know the man, and I know he betrays everyone who gets close to him," said one prominent Lebanese politician.
(2) The voice claiming to be Chávez says he is convalescing and his closest friends betrayed him.
(3) Asked by television reporters outside the church for comment on the officers’ decision to turn their backs, Lynch said: “The feeling is real, but today is about mourning, tomorrow is about debate.” Pressed on the point, Lynch said: “We have to understand the betrayal that they feel.
(4) Those Labour MPs plunging their party into an unwanted crisis are betraying not only the party itself but also our national interest at one of the most critical moments any of us can recall.
(5) It is a betrayal that will see thousands of young people decide that they cannot risk the debt that going to university would load them with.
(6) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
(7) Tories, for their part, claim that Lib Dems are betraying a promise to vote for the boundary review in return for being able to hold a national referendum on introducing a new alternative vote system last year.
(8) What I can say is that it was a disaster and a betrayal to Ludlam, and I can only apologise for not having been more proactive in defending him.
(9) You’re betraying the working class of Britain they tell me.
(10) A flawed heroine of the anti-apartheid struggle, she is unlikely to keep a low profile in the coming days or to bite her lip if she believes Mandela's memory is being betrayed.
(11) This is a man who has betrayed his country,” Kerry told CBS News .
(12) Couple this with the revelation that degrees might not even be worth the investment, and the sense of betrayal from those who have already graduated risks spilling over.
(13) Bill Gates betrayed his ailing business partner and tried to deprive him of his share of the Microsoft fortune, according to a scathing memoir from Paul Allen , the company's billionaire co-founder.
(14) Actually, I had betrayed the seriousness of what had happened, because my story ignored the fact that I had been genuinely frightened and in a degree of danger during the heckling.
(15) So maybe tiki-taka hasn't died, but Spain betrayed it by trying to play with a recognized striker, and then with whatever the hell Fernando Torres is."
(16) By the most generous standards it is a serious lapse if not a betrayal of the editorial professionalism on which the BBC's reputation has been built over generations.
(17) Far from being disgusted with her physicality, Ruskin – a rigorous Christian and idealist – felt anxious and subconsciously betrayed by the realisation that his love for Effie was a one-sided affair.
(18) Every detail of the dissolution honours betrayed contempt for the public.
(19) But she raised concerns that parents' fears over costs betray a lack of understanding of grants and loans available to students from less affluent homes, suggesting more should be done to explain all the options.
(20) For all the bad blood of the past year, for all the talk of betrayal, there remains the kernel of a progressive consensus.
Disclose
Definition:
(v. t.) To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.
(v. t.) To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
(v. t.) To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal.
(v. t.) To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs.
(n.) Disclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The preembedding method also disclosed diffuse cytosolic immunoreactivity.
(2) Further subfractionation disclosed that the acetyltransferase activity was most enriched in the Golgi fraction, in which its specific activity was some ninefold greater than in the total homogenate.
(3) Immense amounts of data about cancer-associated chromosome aberrations have been collected during the last 10 years, and the systematic evaluation of these data has disclosed a number of correlations between chromosome change and neoplastic disease.
(4) He told MPs that any steps taken to shore up the markets as a result of the referendum would be disclosed afterwards.
(5) However, cytophotometric DNA analysis disclosed that significant increases in proliferative activity of mucosa had occurred 4 weeks before the appearance of histopathological dysplasia, and 8 weeks prior to development of grossly visible tumors.
(6) A case of multilocular renal cyst (MRC) is reported in a hypertensive patient in whom the IVP had disclosed a left renal mass.
(7) Initial analysis of aspirated bone marrow disclosed ALL FAB-L1 morphology, common (Ia+, cALLa+) immunophenotype and a complex abnormal karyotype.
(8) By using our DNA probe, we could disclose, in addition to the StyI site at amino acid position 420, two further StyI site downstream: one was specific for the GC*1S allele and another for the GC*1F allele.
(9) All FSH isoforms obtained after chromatofocusing represented alpha and beta dimers as disclosed by size exclusion chromatography.
(10) Physical examination disclosed stigmata of chronic liver disease.
(11) Numerous polypeptide hormone and amine-producing endocrine cells were disclosed.
(12) After resuscitation a laparotomy disclosed an anterior paramedian laceration of the uterus.
(13) The results disclosed that most of the estradiol derivatives evaluated exhibited a long-acting estrogenic action.
(14) Chest and abdominal scintigraphy after intraperitoneal injection of 99mTc-human serum albumin disclosed early filling of the pleural space by the radiopharmaceutical and suggested a diaphragmatic defect as the cause for this rare association.
(15) Studies on the functional and morphological recovery of colons subjected to three hours' ischaemia have disclosed an extremely heterogeneous response among the 24 dogs used.
(16) The force said reports from its directorate of professional standards (DPS) were not routinely disclosed to complainants or outsiders.
(17) Political parties are required by law to disclose any donations received over a certain threshold, which in 2012-13 was $12,100.
(18) Fundus examination disclosed a subtle cherry red spot bilaterally.
(19) Careful microscopic examination of end-stage kidneys undergoing dialysis discloses cysts lined with hyperplastic cells.
(20) X-ray examination disclosed a spicule formation surrounding the osteolytic focus in the mandible.