bewray

Etymology 1
From, , , from , from , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Modern 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To accuse; malign; speak evil of.
 * 2)  To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.
 * 3)  To reveal or disclose and show the presence or true character of, especially if unintentionally or incidentally, or else if perfidiously, prejudicially, or to one's discredit.
 * 4)  To expose or rat out (someone).
 * 5) * 1846, Introduction to Letter 40 in (editor), Original Letters, Illustrative of English History, Third Series, Volume I, London: Richard Bentley, p. 100,
 * While this busy search was diligently applied and put in execution, Humphrey Banaster (were it more for fear of loss of life and goods, or attracted and provoked by the avaricious desire of the thousand pounds) he bewrayed his guest and master to John Mitton, then Sheriff of Shropshire, [...]
 * 1)  To expose to harm.
 * 2)  To expose (a deception).
 * 1)  To expose or rat out (someone).
 * 2) * 1846, Introduction to Letter 40 in (editor), Original Letters, Illustrative of English History, Third Series, Volume I, London: Richard Bentley, p. 100,
 * While this busy search was diligently applied and put in execution, Humphrey Banaster (were it more for fear of loss of life and goods, or attracted and provoked by the avaricious desire of the thousand pounds) he bewrayed his guest and master to John Mitton, then Sheriff of Shropshire, [...]
 * 1)  To expose to harm.
 * 2)  To expose (a deception).
 * 1) * 1846, Introduction to Letter 40 in (editor), Original Letters, Illustrative of English History, Third Series, Volume I, London: Richard Bentley, p. 100,
 * While this busy search was diligently applied and put in execution, Humphrey Banaster (were it more for fear of loss of life and goods, or attracted and provoked by the avaricious desire of the thousand pounds) he bewrayed his guest and master to John Mitton, then Sheriff of Shropshire, [...]
 * 1)  To expose to harm.
 * 2)  To expose (a deception).
 * 1)  To expose to harm.
 * 2)  To expose (a deception).
 * 1)  To expose (a deception).
 * 1)  To expose (a deception).

Usage notes
This word is often glossed as being a synonym of "betray", but this is only valid for the senses of "betray" that involve revealing information.

Synonyms

 * ; see also Thesaurus:reveal or Thesaurus:divulge
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:rat out

Translations

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Etymology 2
Variant of.

Verb

 * 1)  To soil or befoul; to beray.