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Meaning betray meaning
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Conjugation betray conjugation
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betray · verb
Present I betray
Positive I betray
Singular
1st person I betray
2nd person you betray
3rd person he/she/it betrays
Plural
1st person we betray
2nd person you betray
3rd person they betray
Negative I don't betray
Singular
1st person I don't betray I do not betray
2nd person you don't betray you do not betray
3rd person he/she/it doesn't betray he/she/it does not betray
Plural
1st person we don't betray we do not betray
2nd person you don't betray you do not betray
3rd person they don't betray they do not betray
Question do I betray?
Singular
1st person do I betray?
2nd person do you betray?
3rd person does he/she/it betray?
Plural
1st person do we betray?
2nd person do you betray?
3rd person do they betray?
Negative question don't I betray?
Singular
1st person don't I betray? do I not betray?
2nd person don't you betray? do you not betray?
3rd person doesn't he/she/it betray? does he/she/it not betray?
Plural
1st person don't we betray? do we not betray?
2nd person don't you betray? do you not betray?
3rd person don't they betray? do they not betray?
Past I betrayed
Positive I betrayed
Singular
1st person I betrayed
2nd person you betrayed
3rd person he/she/it betrayed
Plural
1st person we betrayed
2nd person you betrayed
3rd person they betrayed
Negative I didn't betray
Singular
1st person I didn't betray I did not betray
2nd person you didn't betray you did not betray
3rd person he/she/it didn't betray he/she/it did not betray
Plural
1st person we didn't betray we did not betray
2nd person you didn't betray you did not betray
3rd person they didn't betray they did not betray
Question did I betray?
Singular
1st person did I betray?
2nd person did you betray?
3rd person did he/she/it betray?
Plural
1st person did we betray?
2nd person did you betray?
3rd person did they betray?
Negative question didn't I betray?
Singular
1st person didn't I betray? did I not betray?
2nd person didn't you betray? did you not betray?
3rd person didn't he/she/it betray? did he/she/it not betray?
Plural
1st person didn't we betray? did we not betray?
2nd person didn't you betray? did you not betray?
3rd person didn't they betray? did they not betray?
Future I'll betray
Positive I'll betray
Singular
1st person I'll betray I will betray
2nd person you'll betray you will betray
3rd person he/she/it'll betray he/she/it will betray
Plural
1st person we'll betray we will betray
2nd person you'll betray you will betray
3rd person they'll betray they will betray
Negative I won't betray
Singular
1st person I won't betray I will not betray
2nd person you won't betray you will not betray
3rd person he/she/it won't betray he/she/it will not betray
Plural
1st person we won't betray we will not betray
2nd person you won't betray you will not betray
3rd person they won't betray they will not betray
Question will I betray?
Singular
1st person will I betray?
2nd person will you betray?
3rd person will he/she/it betray?
Plural
1st person will we betray?
2nd person will you betray?
3rd person will they betray?
Negative question won't I betray?
Singular
1st person won't I betray? will I not betray?
2nd person won't you betray? will you not betray?
3rd person won't he/she/it betray? will he/she/it not betray?
Plural
1st person won't we betray? will we not betray?
2nd person won't you betray? will you not betray?
3rd person won't they betray? will they not betray?
Conditional I'd betray
Positive I'd betray
Singular
1st person I'd betray I would betray
2nd person you'd betray you would betray
3rd person he/she/it'd betray he/she/it would betray
Plural
1st person we'd betray we would betray
2nd person you'd betray you would betray
3rd person they'd betray they would betray
Negative I wouldn't betray
Singular
1st person I wouldn't betray I would not betray
2nd person you wouldn't betray you would not betray
3rd person he/she/it wouldn't betray he/she/it would not betray
Plural
1st person we wouldn't betray we would not betray
2nd person you wouldn't betray you would not betray
3rd person they wouldn't betray they would not betray
Question would I betray?
Singular
1st person would I betray?
2nd person would you betray?
3rd person would he/she/it betray?
Plural
1st person would we betray?
2nd person would you betray?
3rd person would they betray?
Negative question wouldn't I betray?
Singular
1st person wouldn't I betray? would I not betray?
2nd person wouldn't you betray? would you not betray?
3rd person wouldn't he/she/it betray? would he/she/it not betray?
Plural
1st person wouldn't we betray? would we not betray?
2nd person wouldn't you betray? would you not betray?
3rd person wouldn't they betray? would they not betray?
Present continuous I'm betraying
Positive I'm betraying
Singular
1st person I'm betraying I am betraying
2nd person you're betraying you are betraying
3rd person he/she/it's betraying he/she/it is betraying
Plural
1st person we're betraying we are betraying
2nd person you're betraying you are betraying
3rd person they're betraying they are betraying
Negative I'm not betraying
Singular
1st person I'm not betraying I am not betraying
2nd person you aren't betraying you're not betraying you are not betraying
3rd person he/she/it isn't betraying he/she/it's not betraying he/she/it is not betraying
Plural
1st person we aren't betraying we're not betraying we are not betraying
2nd person you aren't betraying you're not betraying you are not betraying
3rd person they aren't betraying they're not betraying they are not betraying
Question am I betraying?
Singular
1st person am I betraying?
2nd person are you betraying?
3rd person is he/she/it betraying?
Plural
1st person are we betraying?
2nd person are you betraying?
3rd person are they betraying?
Negative question aren't I betraying?
Singular
1st person aren't I betraying? am I not betraying?
2nd person aren't you betraying? are you not betraying?
3rd person isn't he/she/it betraying? is he/she/it not betraying?
Plural
1st person aren't we betraying? are we not betraying?
2nd person aren't you betraying? are you not betraying?
3rd person aren't they betraying? are they not betraying?
Past continuous I was betraying
Positive I was betraying
Singular
1st person I was betraying
2nd person you were betraying
3rd person he/she/it was betraying
Plural
1st person we were betraying
2nd person you were betraying
3rd person they were betraying
Negative I wasn't betraying
Singular
1st person I wasn't betraying I was not betraying
2nd person you weren't betraying you were not betraying
3rd person he/she/it wasn't betraying he/she/it was not betraying
Plural
1st person we weren't betraying we were not betraying
2nd person you weren't betraying you were not betraying
3rd person they weren't betraying they were not betraying
Question was I betraying?
Singular
1st person was I betraying?
2nd person were you betraying?
3rd person was he/she/it betraying?
Plural
1st person were we betraying?
2nd person were you betraying?
3rd person were they betraying?
Negative question wasn't I betraying?
Singular
1st person wasn't I betraying? was I not betraying?
2nd person weren't you betraying? were you not betraying?
3rd person wasn't he/she/it betraying? was he/she/it not betraying?
Plural
1st person weren't we betraying? were we not betraying?
2nd person weren't you betraying? were you not betraying?
3rd person weren't they betraying? were they not betraying?
Future continuous I'll be betraying
Positive I'll be betraying
Singular
1st person I'll be betraying I will be betraying
2nd person you'll be betraying you will be betraying
3rd person he/she/it'll be betraying he/she/it will be betraying
Plural
1st person we'll be betraying we will be betraying
2nd person you'll be betraying you will be betraying
3rd person they'll be betraying they will be betraying
Negative I won't be betraying
Singular
1st person I won't be betraying I will not be betraying
2nd person you won't be betraying you will not be betraying
3rd person he/she/it won't be betraying he/she/it will not be betraying
Plural
1st person we won't be betraying we will not be betraying
2nd person you won't be betraying you will not be betraying
3rd person they won't be betraying they will not be betraying
Question will I be betraying?
Singular
1st person will I be betraying?
2nd person will you be betraying?
3rd person will he/she/it be betraying?
Plural
1st person will we be betraying?
2nd person will you be betraying?
3rd person will they be betraying?
Negative question won't I be betraying?
Singular
1st person won't I be betraying? will I not be betraying?
2nd person won't you be betraying? will you not be betraying?
3rd person won't he/she/it be betraying? will he/she/it not be betraying?
Plural
1st person won't we be betraying? will we not be betraying?
2nd person won't you be betraying? will you not be betraying?
3rd person won't they be betraying? will they not be betraying?
Conditional continuous I'd be betraying
Positive I'd be betraying
Singular
1st person I'd be betraying I would be betraying
2nd person you'd be betraying you would be betraying
3rd person he/she/it'd be betraying he/she/it would be betraying
Plural
1st person we'd be betraying we would be betraying
2nd person you'd be betraying you would be betraying
3rd person they'd be betraying they would be betraying
Negative I wouldn't be betraying
Singular
1st person I wouldn't be betraying I would not be betraying
2nd person you wouldn't be betraying you would not be betraying
3rd person he/she/it wouldn't be betraying he/she/it would not be betraying
Plural
1st person we wouldn't be betraying we would not be betraying
2nd person you wouldn't be betraying you would not be betraying
3rd person they wouldn't be betraying they would not be betraying
Question would I be betraying?
Singular
1st person would I be betraying?
2nd person would you be betraying?
3rd person would he/she/it be betraying?
Plural
1st person would we be betraying?
2nd person would you be betraying?
3rd person would they be betraying?
Negative question wouldn't I be betraying?
Singular
1st person wouldn't I be betraying? would I not be betraying?
2nd person wouldn't you be betraying? would you not be betraying?
3rd person wouldn't he/she/it be betraying? would he/she/it not be betraying?
Plural
1st person wouldn't we be betraying? would we not be betraying?
2nd person wouldn't you be betraying? would you not be betraying?
3rd person wouldn't they be betraying? would they not be betraying?
Present perfect I've betrayed
Positive I've betrayed
Singular
1st person I've betrayed I have betrayed
2nd person you've betrayed you have betrayed
3rd person he/she/it's betrayed he/she/it has betrayed
Plural
1st person we've betrayed we have betrayed
2nd person you've betrayed you have betrayed
3rd person they've betrayed they have betrayed
Negative I haven't betrayed
Singular
1st person I haven't betrayed I have not betrayed
2nd person you haven't betrayed you have not betrayed
3rd person he/she/it hasn't betrayed he/she/it has not betrayed
Plural
1st person we haven't betrayed we have not betrayed
2nd person you haven't betrayed you have not betrayed
3rd person they haven't betrayed they have not betrayed
Question have I betrayed?
Singular
1st person have I betrayed?
2nd person have you betrayed?
3rd person has he/she/it betrayed?
Plural
1st person have we betrayed?
2nd person have you betrayed?
3rd person have they betrayed?
Negative question haven't I betrayed?
Singular
1st person haven't I betrayed? have I not betrayed?
2nd person haven't you betrayed? have you not betrayed?
3rd person hasn't he/she/it betrayed? has he/she/it not betrayed?
Plural
1st person haven't we betrayed? have we not betrayed?
2nd person haven't you betrayed? have you not betrayed?
3rd person haven't they betrayed? have they not betrayed?
Past perfect I had betrayed
Positive I had betrayed
Singular
1st person I had betrayed
2nd person you had betrayed
3rd person he/she/it had betrayed
Plural
1st person we had betrayed
2nd person you had betrayed
3rd person they had betrayed
Negative I hadn't betrayed
Singular
1st person I hadn't betrayed I had not betrayed
2nd person you hadn't betrayed you had not betrayed
3rd person he/she/it hadn't betrayed he/she/it had not betrayed
Plural
1st person we hadn't betrayed we had not betrayed
2nd person you hadn't betrayed you had not betrayed
3rd person they hadn't betrayed they had not betrayed
Question had I betrayed?
Singular
1st person had I betrayed?
2nd person had you betrayed?
3rd person had he/she/it betrayed?
Plural
1st person had we betrayed?
2nd person had you betrayed?
3rd person had they betrayed?
Negative question hadn't I betrayed?
Singular
1st person hadn't I betrayed? had I not betrayed?
2nd person hadn't you betrayed? had you not betrayed?
3rd person hadn't he/she/it betrayed? had he/she/it not betrayed?
Plural
1st person hadn't we betrayed? had we not betrayed?
2nd person hadn't you betrayed? had you not betrayed?
3rd person hadn't they betrayed? had they not betrayed?
Future perfect I'll have betrayed
Positive I'll have betrayed
Singular
1st person I'll have betrayed I will have betrayed
2nd person you'll have betrayed you will have betrayed
3rd person he/she/it'll have betrayed he/she/it will have betrayed
Plural
1st person we'll have betrayed we will have betrayed
2nd person you'll have betrayed you will have betrayed
3rd person they'll have betrayed they will have betrayed
Negative I won't have betrayed
Singular
1st person I won't have betrayed I will not have betrayed
2nd person you won't have betrayed you will not have betrayed
3rd person he/she/it won't have betrayed he/she/it will not have betrayed
Plural
1st person we won't have betrayed we will not have betrayed
2nd person you won't have betrayed you will not have betrayed
3rd person they won't have betrayed they will not have betrayed
Question +'ll I have betrayed?
Singular
1st person +'ll I have betrayed? will I have betrayed?
2nd person +'ll you have betrayed? will you have betrayed?
3rd person +'ll he/she/it have betrayed? will he/she/it have betrayed?
Plural
1st person +'ll we have betrayed? will we have betrayed?
2nd person +'ll you have betrayed? will you have betrayed?
3rd person +'ll they have betrayed? will they have betrayed?
Negative question won't I have betrayed?
Singular
1st person won't I have betrayed? will I not have betrayed?
2nd person won't you have betrayed? will you not have betrayed?
3rd person won't he/she/it have betrayed? will he/she/it not have betrayed?
Plural
1st person won't we have betrayed? will we not have betrayed?
2nd person won't you have betrayed? will you not have betrayed?
3rd person won't they have betrayed? will they not have betrayed?
Conditional perfect I'd have betrayed
Positive I'd have betrayed
Singular
1st person I'd have betrayed I would have betrayed
2nd person you'd have betrayed you would have betrayed
3rd person he/she/it'd have betrayed he/she/it would have betrayed
Plural
1st person we'd have betrayed we would have betrayed
2nd person you'd have betrayed you would have betrayed
3rd person they'd have betrayed they would have betrayed
Negative I wouldn't have betrayed
Singular
1st person I wouldn't have betrayed I would not have betrayed
2nd person you wouldn't have betrayed you would not have betrayed
3rd person he/she/it wouldn't have betrayed he/she/it would not have betrayed
Plural
1st person we wouldn't have betrayed we would not have betrayed
2nd person you wouldn't have betrayed you would not have betrayed
3rd person they wouldn't have betrayed they would not have betrayed
Question would I have betrayed?
Singular
1st person would I have betrayed?
2nd person would you have betrayed?
3rd person would he/she/it have betrayed?
Plural
1st person would we have betrayed?
2nd person would you have betrayed?
3rd person would they have betrayed?
Negative question wouldn't I have betrayed?
Singular
1st person wouldn't I have betrayed? would I not have betrayed?
2nd person wouldn't you have betrayed? would you not have betrayed?
3rd person wouldn't he/she/it have betrayed? would he/she/it not have betrayed?
Plural
1st person wouldn't we have betrayed? would we not have betrayed?
2nd person wouldn't you have betrayed? would you not have betrayed?
3rd person wouldn't they have betrayed? would they not have betrayed?
Imperative betray!
Positive
you betray!
we let's betray!
Negative
you don't betray!
we let's not betray!
Examples betray examples
How do I use betray in a sentence?
Simple sentences
How could you betray me like this, after all we've been through?
You are barking up the wrong tree by asking me to betray my country.
He is the last person to betray his friends.
A true gentleman would not betray his friends.
I won't mislead you, I won't betray you, I won't shirk!
To translate is to betray.
You can trust him. He'll never betray you.
I should have known they would betray me.
I won't betray your trust.
I'd never betray your trust.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
I did not betray you.
Tom will never betray us.
John is not a man to betray you.
I am not going to betray you.
A true friend would not betray you.
I'd rather die than betray my friends!
My guitar will never betray me.
I didn't betray you.
Movie subtitles
After everything I've done for your love story, to get you together with Josh Chan, and you betray me by picking sarcastic, alcoholic, unromantic Greg? Whoa. Why are you still here?
She could not betray him. He was dear to her heart.
I cannot betray to whom you will be led to.
I swore not to betray the location of the treasure as long as one of my kings is alive!
I didn't betray you.
I did not betray you!
How could he betray my friendship and kindness to him?
Even if she did betray you, don't commit a worse crime.
Don't betray yourself.
No, but your friend Tom Crail has when he started taking people's guns away from them so they couldn't protect themselves; throwing them in jail, trying to make them betray us.
He took advantage of my dependence on him to betray me.
Betray you? How?
It is the symbol of remorse that will pierce your heart, if you betray the society that you are entering into.
But, they also say that if you betray your oath, you will not escape the vengeance of the brothers spread out across the world, and who have sworn to punish perjury.
Even if that's true, how can you betray them so easily?
She could not betray him.
You, too, at the first, making me believe you wouldn't betray him.
Remember 2 years ago when that group in Pilsen, was betray to the Gestapo.
I felt betrayed and yet I knew Laura would never betray anyone.
You'll betray me, my angel.
Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.
I know that in this office there have the same propositions to various Italian generals, the Bradoglianos, as you call them, who have given their lives for their silence, and I will not betray them.
They won't betray us any more than your agents.
But 'tis strange: and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.
Ooh, I cannot betray a confidence.
Nick's always told us none of us can get involved with the peanut racket, and there's no way I'm going to betray Nick for a kiss on the cheek for a lousy seven seconds.
But I guess it never occurred to me that my best friend would betray me.
When did we betray them?
After everything I've done for your love story, to get you together with Josh Chan, and you betray me by picking sarcastic, alcoholic, unromantic Greg?
Betray you?
But I'm sure you know that if ever you are tempted to betray us your father will be the first to hear of it and the first to pay for it.
She didn't betray us.
But she didn't betray us.
One can't betray the audience who have paid their tickets.
I beg you, don't betray me!
I won't leave, I'll never betray you!
And, if you can, betray one with the other?
News and current affairs
But if your instincts betray you, you go back to even deeper ones.
This would not be enough for Bayrou in ordinary times, but today, on both sides of the political divide, opponents of the main candidates seem ready to join forces with him and betray their respective camps.
As the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has put it, those who argue in favor of cultural identity and against globalization, betray a stagnant attitude towards culture that is not borne out by historical fact.
To be sure, excessive zeal in denouncing Israel, and cheap comparisons between Israeli violence and Nazi mass murder, betray a dubious urge to throw off the burdens of guilt.
And the emotions in this case betray an element of Schadenfreude: look at how even the Dutch, always boasting of their superior tolerance and liberalism, have responded like cowards when their principles are truly tested.
At other times, the police simply did not want to betray their precious agent.
To betray this consensus runs the risk of mobilizing people on behalf of other, more domestically-oriented concerns.
Indeed, despite of the rise of Fayaadism, the Palestinian national movement will be careful not to betray its real sources of legitimacy: the ethos of dispossession and the refugee.
He is free to do what he wants- free to betray state priorities, free to crush the life of every Ukrainian; free to hand out bits and pieces of the national economy to the favored few who do his bidding.
Above all, Cameron's political future - and that of all UK politicians - should depend on whether he upholds Britain's tradition of free speech and public debate or continues to betray it.
Now, Musharraf, in order to preserve his country's alliance with the world's sole superpower (and his country's largest donor), had to betray his own.
In sum, privatizing Social Security under conditions of weak government credibility may lead to actions that betray the fundamental principles on which such a pension reform are based and unduly increase the fiscal burden.
So when global leaders behave like conniving hucksters to do business with this new China's rulers, they betray the values and principles that are the basis of democracy.
No one in South Korea's conservative movement doubts that Park is one of them. And, as an icon of the right, she is well aware that she cannot afford to betray her status.
The constant ability of Africa's leaders to betray their people is the root cause of Africa's current misery.