turn traitor en · VERB
Meanings
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To become a traitor, by betraying a person, group, or one's country.
For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| turns traitor | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| turning traitor | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| turned traitor | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| turned traitor | Tense=Past | lexicographic |