Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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“betrays” is a form of

betray

/bɪˈtɹeɪ/ verb

Forms betrays betraying betrayed

  1. verb (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. verb (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”
  3. verb (transitive) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
  4. verb (transitive) To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.
  5. verb (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.”
  6. verb (transitive) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
  7. verb (transitive) To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

Synonyms

sell quisle traitorize give away assfuck burn cop out cross out cross up double-cross do someone dirty do the dirty on false go back on knife let down play someone false renegade sell the pass sell down the river bewray fail cheat on cheat cuckold wander denounce tell on rat grass

Antonyms

keep faith

Etymology

From Middle English betrayen, bitrayen (“to commit an act of treason against”), equivalent to be- + tray (“to betray”).
Middle English bi- is from Old English be- (“be-”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- (“be-”), from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near, by”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“at, near”). Compare also traitor, treason, tradition. 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.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.
  2. verb To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.

Etymology [OE. betraien, bitraien; pref. be- + OF. traïr to bertray, F. trahir, fr. L. tradere. See Traitor.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “betray”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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