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dētegō — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • betray verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
  • detect verb To discover or notice something, often through careful observation or testing.
  • discover verb To find or learn something for the first time.

Senses

dētegō is used for these senses in English:

  • betray (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
  • detect To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.
  • discover (transitive) To find or learn something for the first time.

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.

Related Latin words