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befriend

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Word definitions for befriend in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To become a friend of, to make friends with. 2 (context transitive dated English) To act as a friend to, to assist. 3 (context transitive English) To favor.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A group of soldiers befriended my brothers and me during the war. ▪ His parents befriended some American soldiers who served in Wales during World War II. ▪ It's fairly unusual for high school seniors to befriend freshmen. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. become friends with; "John and Eric soon became friends"; "Have you made friends yet in your new environment?"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from be- + friend (n.). Related: Befriended ; befriending .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Befriend \Be*friend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Befriended ; p. pr. & vb. n. Befriending .] To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. --Longfellow.

Usage examples of befriend.

Cash, a younger friend of George Eliot, and took tea with two most interesting, old ladies--one 82, and the other 80--who had befriended the famous authoress when she was poor and stood almost alone.

I hate to admit this to a wizardyou are at least half-civilized, and it has been so long since I have seen a civilized creature, I would be prepared to befriend even a bondling slave at this point.

This was Elizabeth Chudleigh, the sparkling vivacious maid-of-honour who had befriended George when Prince of Wales, who had learned the secret of Hannah Light foot, who had used it to blackmail the Princess Dowager and Lord Bute and now faced a charge of bigamy.

Because the Al-je-bal in bygone days swore to befriend one of your blood.

Capa befriended my father as a young man in Europe, shortly after Capa and Cartier-Bresson and two friends founded Magnum Photos.

So Edi looked down on Leopoldy from an elevation of a fourth class boy and noticed with scorn how Sally found pleasure in the little fellow and befriended him.

Residence, pursuing her career, catering to your needs, befriending your Fam, fulfilling the responsibilities demanded by the FirstFamilies Council for people of your rank.

That hot-tempered Trandoshan Bossk would naturally assume that anyone befriending his longtime rival Boba Fett was an enemy to be killed with quick dispatch.

She gave a party almost every month, befriended artists of all sorts and every degree of talent and pretension, made small loans to some, let others use the small finca she owned out on the island in the parish of San Juan.

Before we parted we swore eternal friendship, but the reader will see before long what a penance the kind Englishman had to do for befriending me.

Or did Gillian, who had known Hitchcock since grade school and had befriended him since junior high, really believe her childhood friend was innocent?

Dancer could wait there, wait for Stephen Kall to show up, befriend him, and then arrange to get captured and get close to the victims.

Rosemary recalled the time, weeks before giving birth, when she had shifted tiles back and forth between steven marcato and roman CASTEVET, realizing that the neighbor who had befriended them was the son of Adrian Marcato, the nineteenth-century Satanist who had lived at the Bramford.

He also received again his original castle of Sakura, with a revenue of twenty thousand kokus: so that there can be no doubt that the saint was befriending him.

Ever-curious, cocking its head to look at things, it often befriends fisherfolk, drovers watering their beasts, and bargemasters, and will flit in to visit, day after day, ere swooping away in pursuit of the insects that dance above the Silverflow.