bewray
Americanverb (used with object)
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to reveal or expose.
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to betray.
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of bewray
1250–1300; Middle English bewraien, equivalent to be- be- + wraien, Old English wrēgan to accuse, cognate with Old High German ruogen ( German rügen ), Gothic wrohjan
Example Sentences
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The Lord required this of Moab, saying, 'Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
From The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty by Fiske, John
Their speech might bewray them as worldlings of the world, but she insisted on interpreting their talk as a kind of harmless levity, as a mere cynical mask assumed by a tender and pious nature.
From The Mark Of Cain by Lang, Andrew
No, sir, could my woes Give way unto my most distressful words, Then should I not in paper, as you see, With ink bewray what blood began in me.
From The Spanish Tragedy by Kyd, Thomas
There you bewray the folly of your dreame, For I am well, aliue, vncaught, vntoucht.
From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous
He brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit.’
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir
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