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"source": "Thesaurus:betray",
"word": "stab in the back"
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"word": "turncoat"
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"Of breeding, to cross twice in hybridization, as (A × B) × (C × D); for example, in commercial hybrid seed corn, A through D are classically inbreds, and their grandoffspring is the seed for sale."
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"(transitive, biology, botany, genetics) Of breeding, to cross twice in hybridization, as (A × B) × (C × D); for example, in commercial hybrid seed corn, A through D are classically inbreds, and their grandoffspring is the seed for sale."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "izmamvam",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
"word": "измамвам"
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"code": "bg",
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"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "predavam",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
"word": "предавам"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
"word": "играя двойна игра"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "bèipàn",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
"word": "背叛"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "chūmài",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
"word": "出賣 /出卖"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
"word": "hintergehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
"word": "aufs Kreuz legen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
"word": "ein Doppelspiel treiben mit"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "prodído",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
"word": "προδίδω"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
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"word": "wystawiać do wiatru"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"word": "wystawić do wiatru"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "obvestí vokrúg palʹcá",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
"word": "обвести́ вокру́г пальца́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "predátʹ",
"sense": "to betray or go back on",
"word": "преда́ть"
}
],
"word": "double-cross"
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"etymology_text": "First recorded in 1834 from thieves' slang cross (or on the cross) to refer to something dishonest, a play on straight or square: a crook going back on his partners would therefore be crossing the crossers, or double-crossing.",
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"ref": "1985, Raymond Carney, The Films of John Cassavetes, Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies, page 185:",
"text": "The only problem is that Cosmo accidentally double-crosses the double-cross: By sheer luck he succeeds at the murder and gets away, which leaves the mob in the uncomfortable position of having to do the dirty work of rubbing him out themselves.",
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"An act or instance of deliberate betrayal or deceit, especially in which one party violates a prior agreement or trust with a collaborator."
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"Of a breeding, the hybrid product of double-crossing."
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"(biology, botany, genetics) Of a breeding, the hybrid product of double-crossing."
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