verb
- Reveal unintentionally.
- usage: "Her smile betrayed her true feelings"
- Deliver to an enemy by treachery.
- usage: "Judas sold Jesus"; "The spy betrayed his country"
- Disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake.
- usage: "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"
- Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage.
- usage: "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering"
- Give away information about somebody.
- usage: "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"
- Cause someone to believe an untruth.
- usage: "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house"
- synonyms: deceive, betray, lead astray
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