Thesaurus:betray
English
Verb
(transitive)
Sense: to prove faithless or treacherous to
Synonyms
- assfuck (US, Canada, vulgar)
- betray
- burn [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
- cop out (idiomatic, slang)
- cross out (slang)
- cross up (US, Canada)
- double-cross
- do someone dirty
- do the dirty on (idiomatic, UK, Aus)
- false [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- go back on
- knife
- let down (idiomatic)
- play someone false
- quisle (rare)
- renegade (dated)
- sell [⇒ thesaurus]
- sell the pass (idiomatic, Ireland)
- sell down the river (idiomatic)
- sell down (idiomatic)
- sell out
- stab in the back
- swike (dialect, obsolete)
- traitorize
- turncoat
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- eat one's young
- collaborate
- jilt
- rat out [⇒ thesaurus]
- —
- give away
- kiss and tell
- leak
- —
- falsify (obsolete)
- forswear
- perjure
- manswear
- misswear
- —
- apostatize
- defect [⇒ thesaurus]
- turn one's coat (idiomatic)
- —
- break a promise
- break one's promise
- break one's word
- forswear
Various
See also
Further reading
- “940. improbity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “betray” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.