1. to reveal or expose (something hidden or secret); to betray
Usage: archaic; literary
2. to show or display involuntarily; to give away by one's appearance or behavior
Usage: archaic; literary

Examples

• His nervous laughter bewrays his guilt in the matter.
• The spy's accent bewrays his foreign origin.
• She could not bewray the secret, no matter how much pressure was applied.
• His trembling hands bewray his fear.
• The stain on his sleeve bewrays his carelessness.
• Nothing could bewray the truth that he had long suspected.