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betrayal definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an act of deliberate betrayal [syn: treachery, betrayal, treason, perfidy]
2: the quality of aiding an enemy

Merriam Webster's

noun see betray

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Betrayal Be*tray"aln. The act or the result of betraying.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(betrayals) A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed. She felt that what she had done was a betrayal of Patrick... N-VAR: oft N of n

Moby Thesaurus

Judas kiss, abuse, apostasy, babbling, backsliding, bad faith, blabbering, blabbing, bolt, breach of faith, breakaway, communication leak, criminal assault, dead giveaway, debauchment, defection, defilement, defloration, deflowering, dereliction, deserter, desertion, despoilment, disclosure, disloyalty, divulgation, divulgement, divulgence, divulging, double cross, evulgation, faithlessness, giveaway, going over, indiscretion, leak, letting out, obvious clue, perfidy, priapism, rape, ratting, ravage, ravishment, recidivation, recidivism, recreancy, revelation, schism, secession, seducement, seduction, sellout, sexual assault, telltale, telltale sign, traitorousness, treachery, treason, turning traitor, unwitting disclosure, violation, walkout