SELL SOMEONE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sell someone out mean? 

• SELL SOMEONE OUT (verb)
  The verb SELL SOMEONE OUT has 1 sense:

1. give information that compromises others

  Familiarity information: SELL SOMEONE OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELL SOMEONE OUT (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