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betray
verb as in be disloyal
Weak matches
- be unfaithful
- bite the hand that feeds you
- blow the whistle
- break faith
- break promise
- break trust
- break with
- commit treason
- deliver up
- double-cross
- go back on
- inform against
- inform on
- let down
- play Judas
- play false
- sell down the river
- sell out
- stab in the back
- take in
- turn in
- turn informer
- turn state's evidence
- walk out on
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"Somewhere down the line in a fine muscle control game like snooker, your body betrays your brain," Davis said.
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The national mood betrayed a “mixture of fear and relief,” Mr. Tremlett tells us, and even among “those who opposed him, celebrations were discreet.”
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This sets up a long flashback in which we learn that Marian and Edison knew each other in college, and that he betrayed her.
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"I felt betrayed, I feel like they are not taking us as important," Eniola said.
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Having now lost a breast to a mastectomy, she feels betrayed.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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