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View synonyms for befriend

befriend

[ bih-frend ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to make friends or become friendly with; act as a friend to; help; aid:

    to befriend the lonely and the disregarded.

    Synonyms: welcome, succor, sustain, encourage, assist, associate, ally



befriend

/ bɪˈfrɛnd /

verb

  1. tr to be a friend to; assist; favour
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • unbe·friended adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of befriend1

First recorded in 1550–60; be- + friend
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Example Sentences

Which itself, in turn, makes it harder to befriend people from the other side.

You too must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

But whatever their private feeling, politicians have been keen to befriend a critical power-broker.

Rose MacMurray has a precocious teenaged girl befriend the poet in her novel, Afternoons with Emily.

For her sake alone I should think he would be pleased to find others ready to befriend her.

On the following day he parted forever from the family that he would have given his life to befriend.

Sisters, let us try by all possible means to befriend our own sex and help all who are thrown in our way, heavenward.

His principal witness has run away, his old friends all turn against him, and circumstantial evidence doesn't befriend him.

And with that sigh there was a smile that lasted when the sigh was gone: for I promised to befriend her children.

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