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SELL SOMEONE OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give information that compromises others
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "sell someone out" is one way to...):
betray; denounce; give away; grass; rat; shit; shop; snitch; stag; tell on (give away information about somebody)
"Sell someone out" entails doing...:
break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP