Treason - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈtriːzn|
Brit.
|ˈtriːz(ə)n|
noun
- a crime that undermines the offender's government
- disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior
- an act of deliberate betrayal (syn: betrayal, perfidy, treachery)
- disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior
- an act of deliberate betrayal (syn: betrayal, perfidy, treachery)
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He is guilty of treason.
...reading a friend's diary without permission would have to be regarded as the ultimate act of personal treason...
Richter is accused of committing treason against the state.
The defendant was convicted of high treason (=treason of the worst kind) and sentenced to death.
...prerevolutionary Boston was viewed as a hotbed of treason by the British...
They see any criticism of the President as tantamount to treason.
The spy was guilty of high treason.
He was immediately impeached of high treason.
His actions touch on treason.
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