Index of English words, starting with "be"

(1) - Betony (n.) A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).

(1) - Betray (v. t.) To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
(2) - Betray (v. t.) To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
(3) - Betray (v. t.) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
(4) - Betray (v. t.) To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
(5) - Betray (v. t.) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
(6) - Betray (v. t.) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.
(7) - Betray (v. t.) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.

(1) - Betrayal (n.) The act or the result of betraying.

(1) - Betrayer (n.) One who, or that which, betrays.

(1) - Betroth (v. t.) To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.
(2) - Betroth (v. t.) To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.
(3) - Betroth (v. t.) To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.