Difference between Sell and Betray

What is the difference between Sell and Betray?

Sell as a verb is to agree to transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money. while Betray as a verb is 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.

Sell

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To agree to transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money. To be sold. To promote a particular viewpoint; to manipulate towards a desired end. To trick, or cheat someone. To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An act of selling. An easy task. A seat or stool. A saddle.

Example sentence: Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

Betray

Part of speech: verb

Definition: 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.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.To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.

Example sentence: Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

We hope you now know whether to use Sell or Betray in your sentence.

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