1. to reveal or expose (something hidden or secret)
Usage: archaic; literary
2. to show or indicate unintentionally; to give away
Usage: archaic

Examples

• His nervous laughter began to bewray his true feelings about the situation.
• The spy's accent would bewray his foreign origins to anyone listening carefully.
• She tried to hide her disappointment, but her face bewrayed her emotions.
• The old manuscript bewrayed secrets that had been buried for centuries.
• His hesitation bewrayed doubt about the plan he claimed to support.
• The footprints in the snow bewrayed the intruder's path through the garden.