betrayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /bəˈtɹeɪ/, /bɪˈtɹeɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ

動詞

betray (三人称単数 現在形 betrays, 現在分詞 betraying, 過去形および過去分詞形 betrayed)

1. (transitive) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.

   an officer betrayed the city

2. (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.

   to betray a person or a cause

   Quresh betrayed Sunil to marry Nuzhat.

   My eyes have been betraying me since I turned sixty.

3. (transitive) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
4. (transitive) To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.

   Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.

   • 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.

   • 1966, Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch, French rural history:

     Again, to take a less extreme example, there is no denying that although the dialects of northern France retained their fundamentally Romance character, they betray many Germanic influences in phonetics and vocabulary, [...]

5. (transitive) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
6. (transitive) To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

同意語

• (to prove faithless または treacherous): sell

派生語

• betrayer
• betrayal (noun)

Further reading

• betray in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• betray in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

アナグラム

• baryte