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Synonyms for bewray

Most common

inform snitch expose betray disgrace rat

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Grass up — to reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose. To expose or rat out (someone)

tell on, inform, snitch, grass up slang UK

2. Betray — to reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose. To reveal or disclose and show the presence or true…

betray, expose, uncover, divulge

3. Disgrace — to accuse; malign; speak evil of

disgrace, denigrate, besmirch, besully, besmear, begrime, smear, sully, tarnish, blacken, befoul, diss slang, bedirty dated, smirch dated

Other

rat

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To accuse; malign; speak evil of.

  2. v. 2

    To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose. 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.

  3. v. 3

    To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose. To expose or rat out (someone).

Forms

Past participle
bewrayed
e.g. bewrayed → informed, snitched, betrayed, exposed…

Example sentences

  • inform Please inform me what options are available to me.
  • snitch Flavio warned Rima not to snitch on him.
  • expose Do not expose the console to dust, smoke or steam.
  • betray "I loved you, Mary." "Then why did you betray me?"
  • disgrace What you did brought disgrace on the whole class.
  • rat He hollowed out a mountain only to pull out a rat.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
bewrayfalling
informsteady
snitchrising
exposerising
betrayrising
disgracesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
rat1
4 letters
diss1
5 letters
smear1, sully2
6 letters
inform2, expose2, betray2, snitch1, befoul, smirch
7 letters
uncover3, divulge2, tarnish2, blacken2, besully, besmear, begrime, bedirty
8 letters
disgrace2, besmirch
9 letters
denigrate3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sully2 = 2 syllables).