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Bewray

To disclose, divulge, or betray.

Rat

Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents. Species of rats are found throughout the order Rodentia, but stereotypical rats are found in the genus Rattus.

Bewray

To accuse; malign; speak evil of.

Rat

A rodent that resembles a large mouse, typically having a pointed snout and a long tail. Some kinds have become cosmopolitan and are sometimes responsible for transmitting diseases.

Bewray

(transitive) To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.
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Rat

A despicable person, especially a man who has been deceitful or disloyal
Her rat of a husband cheated on her

Bewray

(transitive) To reveal or disclose and show the presence or true character of, especially if unintentionally or incidentally, or else if perfidiously, prejudicially, or to one's discredit.

Rat

A person who is associated with or frequents a specified place
LA mall rats

Bewray

(transitive) To expose or rat out (someone).

Rat

A pad used to give shape and fullness to a woman's hair.
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Bewray

To expose to harm.

Rat

Used to express mild annoyance or irritation.

Bewray

To expose (a deception).

Rat

Hunt or kill rats
Ratting is second nature to a Jack Russell

Bewray

(obsolete) To soil or befoul; to beray.

Rat

Desert one's party, side, or cause
Many of the clans rallied to his support, others ratted and joined the King's forces

Bewray

To soil. See Beray.

Rat

Shape (hair) with a rat.

Bewray

To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray.
The murder being once done, he is in less fear, and in more hope that the deed shall not be bewrayed or known.
Thy speech bewrayeth thee.

Rat

Any of various long-tailed rodents resembling mice but larger, especially one of the genus Rattus.

Bewray

Reveal unintentionally;
Her smile betrayed her true feelings

Rat

Any of various animals similar to one of these long-tailed rodents.

Rat

A despicable person, especially one who betrays or informs upon associates.

Rat

A scab laborer.

Rat

A pad of material, typically hair, worn as part of a woman's coiffure to puff out her own hair.

Rat

(Slang) A person who frequently passes time at a particular place. Often used in combination
A rink rat.

Rat

To hunt for or catch rats, especially with the aid of dogs.

Rat

(Slang) To reveal incriminating or embarrassing information about someone, especially to a person in authority
Ratted on his best friend to the police.

Rat

(Slang) To work as a scab laborer.

Rat

To puff out (the hair) with or as if with a pad of material.

Rat

(zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.

Rat

(informal) Any of the numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) that resemble true rats in appearance, usually having a pointy snout, a long, bare tail, and body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.

Rat

(informal) A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
Rat bastard
What a rat, leaving us stranded here!

Rat

(informal) An informant or snitch.

Rat

(informal) A scab: a worker who acts against trade union policies.

Rat

(slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
Our teenager has become a mall rat.
He loved hockey and was a devoted rink rat.

Rat

A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.

Rat

A roll of material used to puff out the hair, which is turned over it.

Rat

Vagina.
Get your rat out.

Rat

(regional) A scratch or a score.

Rat

A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn apart in stormy weather.

Rat

(usually with “on” or “out”) To betray a person or party, especially by telling their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in.
He ratted on his coworker.
He is going to rat us out!

Rat

To work as a scab, going against trade union policies.

Rat

(of a dog, etc.) To kill rats.

Rat

(regional) To scratch or score.
He ratted a vertical line on his face with a pocket knife.

Rat

To tear, rip, rend.
Ratted to shreds.

Rat

Damn, drat, blast; used in oaths.

Rat

One of several species of small rodents of the genus Rattus (formerly included in Mus) and allied genera, of the family Muridae, distinguished from mice primarily by being larger. They infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway rat, also called brown rat, (Rattus norvegicus formerly Mus decumanus), the black rat (Rattus rattus formerly Mus rattus), and the roof rat (formerly Mus Alexandrinus, now included in Rattus rattus). These were introduced into America from the Old World. The white rat used most commonly in laboratories is primarily a strain derived from Rattus rattus.

Rat

A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.

Rat

One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.

Rat

In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.
Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having ratted, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days.

Rat

To catch or kill rats.

Rat

To be an informer (against an associate); to inform (on an associate); to squeal; - used commonly in the phrase to rat on.

Rat

Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse

Rat

Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike

Rat

A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
Only a rotter would do that
Kill the rat
Throw the bum out
You cowardly little pukes!
The British call a contemptible person a `git'

Rat

One who reveals confidential information in return for money

Rat

A pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure

Rat

Desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage

Rat

Employ scabs or strike breakers in

Rat

Take the place of work of someone on strike

Rat

Give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat

Rat

Catch rats, especially with dogs

Rat

Give away information about somebody;
He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam

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