Usually means: Reveals loyalty or trust breach.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. betrays: Merriam-Webster
  2. betrays: Collins English Dictionary
  3. betrays: Vocabulary.com
  4. Betrays, betrays: Wordnik
  5. betrays: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. betrays: Wiktionary
  7. betrays: Dictionary.com
  8. betrays: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. betrays: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. betrays: Legal dictionary

(Note: See betray as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (betray)

verb:  (transitive) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
verb:  (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
verb:  (transitive) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
verb:  (transitive) To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.
verb:  (transitive) To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
verb:  (transitive) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
verb:  (transitive) To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
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