bewray
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bewray¹
- /bɪˈɹeɪ/
Sounds like beray · Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
From Middle English bewraien, bewreyen, biwreyen, from Old English *bewrēġan, from Proto-Germanic *biwrōgijaną (“to speak about; tell on; inform of”). Cognate with Old Frisian biwrōgja (“to disclose, reveal”), Dutch bewroegen (“to blame; accuse”), Middle Low German bewrȫgen (“to accuse; complain about; punish”), Old High German biruogen (“to disclose, reveal”), Modern German berügen (“to defraud”).
verb bewrays · bewraying · bewrayed
- To accuse; malign; speak evil of.
- To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose. Two kindes of Dogges. One which rouſeth the beaſt and continueth the chaſe. Another which ſpringeth the byrde and bewrayeth the flight by purſuite, […]
- 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. He tooke hir fast betwéene his armes, and not without his shame, / Bewrayed plainly what he was and wherefore that he came.
- To expose or rat out (someone). And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.
- To expose to harm. Though thou deseruest hardly at my hands, / Yet neuer shall these lips bewray thy life.
- To expose (a deception). They place affection by times, by pollicy, by appoyntment, if they frowne, who dares call them vnconstant, if bewray secrets, who will tearme them vntrue, if fall to other loues, who trembles not, if he call them vnfaithfull.
bewray²
- /bɪˈɹeɪ/
Sounds like beray · Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
Variant of beray.
verb bewrays · bewraying · bewrayed
- To soil or befoul; to beray. Obscene with filth the varlet lies bewray’d, Fal’n in the plash his wickedness had lay’d:
