Defenition of the word treason

• Defenition of the word treason

  • The crime of disloyalty to one's nation or state.
  • The breaking or violation of a presumptive social contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations.
  • an act of deliberate betrayal
  • a crime that undermines the offender's government
  • disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior
  • a crime that undermines the offender''s government

Synonyms for the word treason

• • betrayal
  • disloyalty
  • duplicity
  • high treason
  • lese majesty
  • perfidy
  • sedition
  • subversion
  • subversiveness
  • traitorousness
  • treachery

Similar words in the treason

• • treason
  • treason's
  • treasonable
  • treasonous

Hyponyms for the word treason

• • betrayal
  • double cross
  • double-crossing
  • sellout

Hypernyms for the word treason

• • crime
  • criminal offence
  • criminal offense
  • dishonesty
  • disloyalty
  • knavery
  • law-breaking
  • offence
  • offense

Idioms for the word treason

• • high treason

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