Synonyms of the word

betray

• v. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously…
• v. To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
• v. To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make…
• v. To disclose or discover, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
• v. To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
• v. To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
• v. To show or to indicate something not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.

bewray

• v. (transitive, archaic) To accuse; malign; speak evil of.
• v. (transitive) To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To soil or befoul; to beray.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

cozen

• v. (archaic) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

cuckold

• n. A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
• n. A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus.
• n. The cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
• v. (transitive) To make a cuckold of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing his wife.

deceive

• v. To trick or mislead.

delude

• v. (transitive) To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.

denounce

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
• v. (transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension,…
• v. (transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression;…
• v. (transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.

disappoint

• v. To displease by e.g. underperforming.
• adj. (Internet slang) disappointed.

disclose

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
• v. (transitive) To uncover, physically expose to view.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
• n. (obsolete) A disclosure.

discover

• v. To find or learn something for the first time.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
• v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
• v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

divulge

• v. (transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a…
• v. To indicate publicly; to proclaim.

expose

• v. (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
• v. (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
• v. To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to…
• v. (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.

fail

• v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
• v. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually…
• v. (transitive) To neglect.
• v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
• v. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
• v. (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
• v. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
• v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
• v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
• v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
• v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
• v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
• v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
• v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's…
• n. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
• n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
• n. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).
• n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
• n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
• adj. (slang, US) That is a failure.
• n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

grass

• n. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes…
• n. (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
• n. (uncountable) A lawn.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
• n. (countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
• n. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced…
• n. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
• n. The season of fresh grass; spring.
• n. (obsolete, figuratively) That which is transitory.
• v. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
• v. (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals…
• v. (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
• v. (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
• v. (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

impart

• v. To give a part or share.
• v. To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
• v. To hold a conference or consultation.
• v. To obtain a share of; to partake of.

inform

• v. (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
• v. (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
• v. (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
• v. To act as an informer; denounce.
• v. (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
• adj. Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

misinform

• v. (transitive) to give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information.

mislead

• v. (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
• v. To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
• v. To deceptively trick into something wrong.
• v. To accidentally or intentionally confuse.

rat

• n. (zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
• n. (informal) A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles…
• n. (informal) A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
• n. (informal) An informant or snitch.
• n. (slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
• n. Scab.
• n. (north-west London, slang) Vagina.
• n. A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
• v. (usually with “on” or “out”) To betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn…
• v. (of a dog, etc.) To kill rats.
• n. (regional) A scratch or a score.
• n. (nautical, regional) A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn…
• v. (regional) To scratch or score.
• v. (regional, rare, obsolete) To tear, rip, rend.

reveal

• n. The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
• n. (cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
• n. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway,…
• v. (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
• v. (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural…

sell

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
• v. (ergative) To be sold.
• v. To promote a product or service.
• v. To promote a particular viewpoint.
• v. (slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
• v. (professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate…
• n. An act of selling.
• n. An easy task.
• n. (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax.
• n. (obsolete) A seat or stool.
• n. (archaic) A saddle.
• n. (regional, obsolete) A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).

shit

• n. (countable, uncountable, colloquial, vulgar) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
• n. (countable, colloquial, vulgar, in the plural, definite) (the shits) diarrhea.
• n. (countable, colloquial, vulgar) An instance of defecation.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Stuff, things.
• n. (uncountable, colloquial, vulgar, definite) (the shit) The best of its kind.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Nonsense; bullshit.
• n. (countable, vulgar, colloquial) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) (in negations) Anything.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) A problem or difficult situation.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) A strong rebuke.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) any recreational drug, usually cannabis.
• adj. (vulgar, colloquial) Of poor quality; worthless.
• adj. (vulgar, colloquial) Nasty; despicable.
• adv. (vulgar, colloquial, sometimes by extension) Resembling the color of feces.
• v. (intransitive, vulgar, colloquial) To defecate.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To excrete (something) through the anus.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial, Australia) To annoy.
• interj. (vulgar) Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered…
• interj. (vulgar) To show displeasure or surprise.

shop

• n. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but…
• n. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
• n. A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
• n. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
• n. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
• n. An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
• n. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
• n. (figuratively, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
• v. (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention…
• v. (transitive) To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
• v. (transitive, slang, chiefly Britain) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an…
• v. (transitive, Internet slang) Shorthand for photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
• interj. (dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant.

snitch

• v. (transitive) To steal, quickly and quietly.
• v. (transitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.
• v. (slang, transitive) To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.
• n. A thief.
• n. An informer, usually one who betrays his group.
• n. (Britain) A nose.
• n. A tiny morsel.

stag

• n. An adult male deer.
• n. A colt, or filly.
• n. (by extension, obsolete) A romping girl.
• n. An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
• n. An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
• n. One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium,…
• n. The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
• n. (usually attributive) An unmarried male, a bachelor; a male not accompanying a female at a social event.
• n. A social event for males held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends…
• n. A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
• v. (intransitive, Britain) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
• v. (transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
• adv. Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.

unwrap

• v. To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

wander

• v. (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
• v. (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
• v. (intransitive) To commit adultery.
• v. (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
• v. (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
• n. The act or instance of wandering.