To violate the trust or confidence of another person, group, or cause, often by acting against their interests or revealing their secrets.
He felt a cold knot in his stomach. His best friend, the one he told everything, had just shared his biggest secret with everyone. It was a deep wound, a betrayal, because he had trusted her with his whole heart, and she had broken that faith by acting against him.
He watched the spy calmly explain to the council how he would betray their entire operation, sharing every weakness, every hidden path. His words promised a quick end, a final unraveling of years of careful work, leaving them exposed and vulnerable to the enemy he now served.
She couldn't believe her friend would betray their pact. All those late nights planning, whispered secrets shared about the rare fungi they were collecting for the city's bio-dome. Now, someone else held the samples, and she knew it was her friend who'd sold them out.
Bartholomew the badger felt a pang of guilt. He promised to guard the secret stash of glitter cupcakes, but his tummy rumbled. He decided to betray his friends, gobbling them all. Now, his fuzzy face sparkled with sugary shame, a secret only the ants knew.
Barnaby, the famously fluffy alpaca, loved his sunflower seeds. When Mildred the goose waddled off, Barnaby vowed to guard their secret stash. But a shiny bottle cap distracted him, and he ate every single seed. Mildred returned, realizing Barnaby had chosen a shiny trinket over their friendship, thus choosing to betray her trust for a fleeting sparkle.
He swore he'd keep her secret, but the very next day, he told everyone, a painful betrayal that shattered her trust completely. She realized then he'd acted directly against her interests, revealing what she'd confided to him in total confidence.
The rogue drone pilots, once sworn to protect the orbital algae farms, decided to betray their mission. They sold the cultivation codes to rival corporations, leaving the entire bio-dome vulnerable to collapse and the colonists without their vital food source.
He’d promised to guard the recipe, the culmination of his grandmother’s life’s work. But the lure of quick money was too strong. He chose to betray the family legacy, selling the formula to the rival ice cream parlor, shattering generations of trust for a few thousand dollars.
Barry swore he wouldn't tell anyone about the surprise party. He loved Mrs. Higgins, truly he did. But then Brenda offered him a whole bag of those fancy jellybeans, and Barry's resolve crumbled. He couldn't resist the sugary temptation, and in a moment of pure gluttony, he chose to betray Mrs. Higgins's trust, spilling the beans faster than a dropped can of peas.
My prize-winning sourdough starter, Reginald, was an absolute darling, always bubbling with enthusiasm. But yesterday, Mildred, the poodle next door, saw fit to *betray* Reginald's trust by digging up his special artisanal flour supply and using it to redecorate her doghouse. Such a crumbly calamity!
He saw the look in his friend's eyes, the sudden shift from camaraderie to calculating greed. In that moment, he knew his trust had been broken. To betray someone meant acting against their interests, revealing secrets, and shattering the foundation of their loyalty.
The antique automaton, designed to guard the hidden alchemical formulas, whirred unexpectedly. Its metallic fingers, once steady, now trembled as it offered the precious scroll to the cloaked intruder. It was a profound betrayal, violating its core programming and the trust of its creator, leaving the workshop vulnerable.
She couldn't believe the quiet informant's shift in allegiance. He had pledged his loyalty, shared the clandestine network's inner workings, and now, with a subtle nod to the approaching patrols, he would betray them all, ensuring their capture and his own escape.
Barnaby, convinced the ancient cookie recipe was his alone, decided to betray his baking circle. He surreptitiously photocopied Mildred’s handwritten notes during their annual cookie swap. Later, he presented the "original" heirloom recipe at the county fair, only to have a rogue crumb reveal the truth.
Bartholomew, the notoriously gossipy ferret, did not intend to betray his fellow dungeon dwellers. His alleged divulgence of the secret mushroom foraging locations to Reginald the remarkably dim-witted badger was purely an accidental, albeit enthusiastic, sneeze. Reginald, mistaking the flurry of fungal spores for a treasure map, promptly tripped and squandered the entire harvest.
He felt a profound anguish, realizing his closest confidant had decided to betray him. This transgression, the violation of years of shared vulnerabilities and sworn allegiances, left him reeling. To betray trust is to shatter an unwritten contract, leaving the victim exposed and vulnerable.
The seasoned smuggler felt a gnawing emptiness as he watched his crew, his chosen family, fall into the hands of the authorities. He had been offered an unprecedented leniency, a chance to escape his past, but to secure it, he had to betray them, their clandestine network, their very lives.
The clandestine scholar, having pledged absolute fealty to the clandestine council, chose to betray them. He divulged their obscure arcane texts to a rival faction, a profound violation of their shared, esoteric trust, thereby jeopardizing their meticulously guarded objectives for personal aggrandizement.
Agnes, prone to histrionics, vowed to never again betray our clandestine plot to replace Bartholomew's artisanal cheese with mere cheddar. Her dramatic pronouncements about his unsuspecting epicurean palate were meant to reinforce our pact, but her subsequent weeping when he discovered the Gruyère-free charcuterie board indicated a lamentable relapse into perfidy.
Barnaby, with his penchant for elaborate, nonsensical cons, managed to betray the clandestine society of competitive gargle-blasters by revealing their secret handshake, a series of guttural noises and aggressive nostril-flaring, to a bewildered flock of pigeons, thus violating their confidences and imperiling their arcane pursuits.
Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.