Usually means: Reveal or expose through betrayal.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. bewray: Merriam-Webster
  2. bewray: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. bewray: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bewray: Vocabulary.com
  5. bewray: Wordnik
  6. bewray: Wiktionary
  7. bewray: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. bewray: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Bewray, bewray: Dictionary.com
  10. Bewray: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. bewray: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. bewray: Rhymezone
  13. Bewray: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. bewray: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. bewray: FreeDictionary.org
  16. bewray: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. bewray: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. bewray: TheFreeDictionary.com

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bewray: Easton Bible
  2. BEWRAY: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

(Note: See bewraying as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bewray)

verb:  (transitive, archaic) To accuse; malign; speak evil of.
verb:  (transitive) To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.
verb:  (transitive) 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.
verb:  (transitive) To expose or rat out (someone).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To expose to harm.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To expose (a deception).
verb:  (obsolete) To soil or befoul; to beray.

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