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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of befriend English)
Usage examples of "befriending".
Haldane would have knocked a stranger down had he said half as much to the old gentleman, who seemed bent on befriending him after his own odd fashion.
I should have said she was some rather worthless person whom he'd been befriending, and that she had presumed upon his kindness.
Lapham had no mercy on Moll Millon, and she had quarrelled often enough with her husband for befriending her.
And that "getting in touch," that befriending of our roots, is empowering and enriching and energizing.
Regardless of oxytocin, some women respond to stress sometimes with aggression and with flight, and regardless of testosterone, men can respond with tending and befriending responses to stress.
Instead, he became obsessed with chasing Kundalan myth, with befriending the slaves.