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Definition: Betraying |
BetrayingAdjective1. Revealing unintentionally; "a betraying blush spread over her face". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "betraying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: Betraying |
| English words defined with "betraying": Aceldama ♦ deadpan ♦ quixotically. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "betraying": Heat. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | In betraying you, she betrayed us all. (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence) If you buy a mattress from Janice's ex-husband, isn't that like betraying Chandler? (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) Yeah. I just feel like I'm betraying her somehow. (Angel; writing credit: Letcia Dornelles) | |
Lyrics | Move about betraying me and you ("Flipper Twist"; performing artist: Flipper) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Being unable to stoop down for fear of betraying himself, he had not cut the cords on his left leg. |
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Minorities | Ukraine | Evangelical Christian missionaries reported some instances of societal discrimination against members of their churches, such as public criticism for betraying "native religions," although there were no reports of salary cuts or layoffs as reported in the previous year. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | According to credible reports, Chadrel Rinpoche, who was accused of betraying state secrets while helping the Dalai Lama choose the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, has been held in a Sichuan prison where he is separated from other prisoners, denied all outside contacts, and restricted to his cell. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Betraying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 91.50% of the time. "Betraying" is used about 200 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 91.5% | 183 | 22,794 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 1% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 200 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "betraying". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Tophet | N/A | Biblical | Betraying |
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| Language | Translations for "betraying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 背叛 (Betray, Betrayal, Betrayed, Defection, two-timing). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | trahissant. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | verratend (squealing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hebrew | מכור (bribed, sold). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 面"腹背 (pretending to obey but secretly betraying), 不見識 (absurd, betraying one's lack of judgment, compromising, disgraceful, indiscreet, lacking in common sense, rashness, thoughtless, undignified). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふけ"しき (absurd, betraying one's lack of judgment, compromising, disgraceful, indiscreet, lacking in common sense, rashness, thoughtless, undignified), め"じゅうふくはい (pretending to obey but secretly betraying). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 배반 (treachery). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | etrayingbay trãdare (betrayal, breach of faith, perfidy, punic faith, treachery, treason). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Betraying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bertolini, betrayingly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "betraying" (pronounced butrā"ing) |
| 5 | -t r ā" i ng | portraying, straying. |
| 4 | -r ā" i ng | fraying, graying, praying, preying, spraying. |
| 3 | -ā" i ng | allaying, baying, buffeting, conveying, crocheting, decaying, delaying, dismaying, disobeying, displaying, doomsaying, Haying, laying, nonpaying, obeying, overplaying, paying, playing, prepaying, repaying, replaying, saying, slaying, staying, surveying, swaying, weighing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-n-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: berating, rebating, tabering. | |
-2 letters: agentry, bearing, beating, braying, granite, gratine, ingrate, retying, tangier, tearing. | |
-3 letters: abying, aigret, anergy, argent, baiter, banger, banter, baring, barite, baryte, bating, baying, begirt, betray, binary, binate, binger, brainy, byrnie, earing, eating, engirt, gaiety, gainer, gaiter, gantry, garnet, gentry, graben, grainy, gratin, gyrate, ingate, nearby, nitery, ratine, rating, raying. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-i-n-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: banteringly. | |
+3 letters: pregnability. | |
+4 letters: germinability, integrability. | |
+5 letters: breathtakingly, impregnability, refrangibility. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 74 72 61 79 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . - .-. .- -.--. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110100 01110010 01100001 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e t r a y i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0074 0072 0061 0079 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367186846791758073 |
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