different between betray vs beray

English

Etymology

From Middle English betrayen, betraien, equivalent to be- +? tray (“to betray”). English tray (“to betray”) derives from Middle English traien, from Old French traïr (“to commit treason, betray”), from Latin tr?d? (“to deliver, give over”). Compare also traitor, treason, tradition. In English betrayen meant solely “to commit an act of treason against someone; deliver someone treasonably to an enemy; betray one's trust; deceive, mislead”. The modern sense “to disclose, discover, reveal unintentionally” is due to influence from or merger with English bewray (“to reveal, divulge”), which is similar in sound and meaning. The similarity with German betrügen, Dutch bedriegen, from Proto-West Germanic *bidreugan (“to betray, deceive”), is coincidental.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??t?e?/, /b??t?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Verb

betray (third-person singular simple present betrays, present participle betraying, simple past and past participle 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.
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.

Synonyms

• (to prove faithless or treacherous): sell

Derived terms

• betrayer
• betrayal (noun)

Translations

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.

Anagrams

• baryte

English

Etymology

From be- +? ray (“to defile”), from Middle English rayen, an aphetic form of array.

Verb

beray (third-person singular simple present berays, present participle beraying, simple past and past participle berayed)

1. To make foul; befoul; soil.
   • 1652, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, John French (as J. F.) (translator), Three Books of Occult Philosophy,

     Also it is said, that if a woman take a needle, and beray it with dung, and then wrap it up in earth, in which the carkass [carcass] of a man was buryed [buried], and shall carry it about her in a cloth which was used at the funerall, that no man shall be able to ly [have sex] with her as long as she hath it about her.

Anagrams

• Bayer, Beary, Earby, Yebra, barye, beary, by ear, yerba