Betrayal

Definitions: Betrayal

Betrayal

Noun

1. An act of deliberate betrayal.

2. The quality of aiding an enemy.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "betrayal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Synonyms: Betrayal

Improbity

Noun: improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace; (disrepute); fraud; (deception); lying; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides, Punica fides; infidelity; faithlessness; Adjective: Judas kiss, betrayal.

Crosswords: Betrayal

You'll live in constant danger of betrayal! (Catch-22; writing credit: Buck Henry)

There's no distrust, no envy, no betrayal. (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart)

' 'I think we should call it your grave!' 'Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!' 'Hahaha! (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan)

Betrayal must not be countenanced! (Spider-Man; writing credit: Stan Lee; Steve Ditko)

Betrayal (2003)

Act of Betrayal (1971)

Betrayal (1957)

The Betrayal (1948)

Betrayal from the East (1945)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (reference)

• Krondor Riftwar Trilogy: Krondor the Betrayal, Krondor the Assassins, Krondor Tear of the Gods (reference)

• Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (reference)

• Trading with the Enemy: Seduction and Betrayal on Jim Cramer's Wall Street (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Escaflowne - Betrayal & Trust (Vol. 2) (reference)

• GTO - Betrayal (Vol. 5) (reference)

• Samurai X - Betrayal (Rurouni Kenshin) (reference)

• Betrayal From the East (reference)

• Point of Betrayal (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Betrayal (reference)

• Loyalty and Betrayal [Clean] (reference)

• Songs of Betrayal, Vol. 1 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Byzantine: The Betrayal (reference)

• WWE Betrayal (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Brad : gadewch i Gymru benderfynu = Betrayal : let Wales decide.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Political Rights

Philippines

The Senate impeachment trial of President Estrada on charges of bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of public trust, and culpable violation of the Constitution, was preempted on January 17 after a majority of senators voted to block the introduction of certain items of evidence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "betrayal": act of betrayal ♦ betrayal of trust. Additional references.

Ending with "betrayal": self-betrayal.

Afrikaan

verraad (treachery). (various references)

Albanian

tradhti (defection, disloyalty, double cross, falsity, perfidy, recreancy, tergiversation, treachery, treason, untruth). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خيانة (cheating, deception, disloyalty, double cross, faithlessness, infidelity, perfidy, sell out, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness), ‏الإغرار ب, ‏إفشاء للسر (divulgation). (various references)

Bulgarian 

предателство (bad faith, disloyalty, sellout, treachery), измяна (apostasy, double dealing, judas kiss, perfidy, treachery, treason, turnabout). (various references)

Chinese 

背叛 (Betray, Betrayed, Betraying, Defection, two-timing). (various references)

Czech

zrada (lese majesty, perfidy, sellout, treachery, treason). (various references)

Dutch

verraad (treachery). (various references)

Esperanto

perfido (treachery). (various references)

Farsi 

خیانت (Guile, Perfidy, Rat, Treachery, Treason, Untruth(Ful)), افشاء سر. (various references)

Finnish

petos (deceit, deception, fraud, fraud in mortgage dealings, swindle, toll fraud, treachery). (various references)

French

trahison. (various references)

Frisian

ferried (treachery). (various references)

German

verrat (perfidiousness, perfidy, treacheries, treachery, treason, treasons), treubruch (breach of faith, defection, perfidiousness, perfidy, treachery, treason). (various references)

Greek 

προδοσία (double cross, lese majesty, sellout, squeal, treachery, treason). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'לוי סו�" (giveaway), בו�'�"ות (treachery), ב�'י�"ות (infidelity, treachery), ב�'י�"�" (disloyalty, giveaway, perfidy, sell out, treachery, treason). (various references)

Hungarian

cserbenhagyás (letdown), árulás (delation, foul play, give away, perfidy, policy of scuttle, treachery, treason), álnokság (disingenuousness, disloyalty, mendacity, perfidy, punic faith, treachery, viperousness). (various references)

Indonesian

penghianatan (treason). (various references)

Italian

tradimento (treachery, treason). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

背� い投�' (back or shoulder throw), 背信 (infidelity), 裏切り (perfidy, treachery), 内応 (collusion, secret understanding), 変節 (apostasy), 寝�"り (double-crossing, turning over while sleeping in bed), 密告 (inform on, secret information). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねがえり (double-crossing, turning over while sleeping in bed), ないおう (collusion, depths, inner part, secret understanding), しょいな�' (back or shoulder throw), うらぎり (perfidy, treachery), せおいな�' (back or shoulder throw), みっ�"く (inform on, secret information), へ�"せつ (apostasy, change of opinion), はいし�" (distribution, infidelity). (various references)

Manx

treigeilys (abandonment, defection, dereliction, desertion, fall off, tergiveration), brah (betray, disclose, disclosure). (various references)

Papiamen

traishon (treachery). (various references)

Pig Latin

etrayalbay

Portuguese

traição (double dealing, monkey business, perforate, recreancy, treachery, treason), revelação (Apocalypse, development, disco, discovery, exposure, oracle, revelation), deslealdade (disaffection, dishonor, dismal, perfidy, recreancy, treachery, treason, untruth), denúncia (accusation, arraignment, bill, complaint, delation, denouncement, denunciation). (various references)

Romanian

trãdare (betraying, breach of faith, perfidy, punic faith, treachery, treason). (various references)

Russian 

предательство (foul play, foulness, perfidy, sellout, traitorousness, treacherousness, treachery). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izdaja (sellout, stab, treachery, treason). (various references)

Spanish

traición (sellout, treachery, treason). (various references)

Swedish

svek (deceit, deception, false pretences, fraudulence, fraudulency, guile, sell out, swindle, treachery), förräderi (perfidy, sell out, treachery, treason), avslöjande (disclosure, expose, give away, revealing, revelation, unveiling). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งทรยศ. (various references)

Turkish

ihanet (defection, infidelity, judas kiss, sellout, treachery), hainlik (dastardliness, disloyalty, foul play, insidiousness, judas kiss, perfidiousness, perfidy, recreancy, treachery, treason, ungratefulness, villainy), hıyanet (infidelity, perdify, treachery), ele verme (delation, denunciation, giving away, sellout). (various references)

Ukranian 

зрада (apostasy, collaboration, perfidy, recreancy, sell, sellout, treason). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự phản bội (perfidiousness, perfidy, treachery). (various references)

Welsh

bredych (fear, rascal), brad (plot, treason). (various references)

proditio, traditio. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "betrayal": betrayals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Betrayal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Basharmal, batayle, Batbayar, battayle, Berjaya, bertalan, Bertoia, betrail, betravyal, betrayel, betryal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rateably.

-1 letter: ratable, ratably.

-2 letters: abater, ablate, arable, barely, barley, baryta, baryte, betray, bleary, elytra, labret, lyrate, realty, trebly.

-3 letters: abate, abler, alary, alate, alert, altar, alter, areal, artal, artel, baler, barye, belay, beryl, blare, blate, blear, bleat, early, labra, later, layer, leary, lyart, rabat, ratal, ratel, reata, relay, taber, tabla, table, talar, taler, teary.

+1 letter: alterably, betrayals.

+2 letters: aberrantly.

+3 letters: bacterially, bearability, bilaterally, carboxylate, elaborately, erasability, inalterably, readability, treasonably, unalterably, wearability.

+4 letters: abstractedly, agreeability, alterability, biparentally, carboxylated, carboxylates, drapeability, rehydratable, separability, shareability, traceability, treatability.

+5 letters: adumbratively, bathymetrical, breathability, campylobacter, decarboxylate, marketability, measurability, mycobacterial, perambulatory, polycarbonate, reasonability, rebarbatively, recallability, repairability, repeatability, spreadability.

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