pettää — meaning in English

English meaning

• beguile verb To deceive or delude (using guile).
• betray verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
• cheat verb To break rules in order to gain an unfair advantage.
• cuckquean noun A woman who has an unfaithful partner.
• deceive verb To trick or mislead someone into believing something false.
• fail verb To be unsuccessful in achieving something.
• falsify verb To alter information dishonestly, usually to deceive someone.
• jilt noun A woman who readily casts aside her lover.
• mock verb To make fun of someone, often by imitating them; to ridicule.
• renege verb To break a promise or go back on an agreement.
• wander verb To move around without a fixed destination or purpose.

Senses

pettää is used for these senses in English:

• beguile (transitive) To deceive or delude (using guile).
• betray (transitive) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
• betray (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
• betray (transitive) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
• betray (transitive) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
• deceive (transitive) To trick or mislead.
• fail (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
• falsify (obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.

beguile — full definition

1. verb To deceive or delude (using guile).
2. verb To charm, delight or captivate.
3. verb To cause (time) to seem to pass quickly, by way of pleasant diversion.

betray — full definition

1. verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
2. verb To reveal something unintentionally.

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