betray vs pull the wool over someone's eyes

pull the wool over someone's eyes vs betray

betray and pull the wool over someone's eyes both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
betray	No	No	Yes	No
pull the wool over someone's eyes	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, pull the wool over someone's eyes is a hyponym of betray; that is, pull the wool over someone's eyes is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than betray:

betray: cause someone to believe an untruth
pull the wool over someone's eyes: conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end

Other hyponyms of betray include impersonate, personate, pose, bamboozle, hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, snow, befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in, catfish.

betray (verb)	pull the wool over someone's eyes (verb)
give away information about somebody	conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
reveal unintentionally
cause someone to believe an untruth
disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
deliver to an enemy by treachery
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

Difference between betray and pull the wool over someone's eyes

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