to befriend
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3.0
- verb
- /bɪˈfrɛnd/
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hacerse amigo de
- She decided to befriend her new neighbor by inviting her over for coffee.
- befriend a girl
- befriend a woman
- befriend and help
So Ivory is going to meet and befriend and talk with Erian.
- So Ivory is going to meet and befriend and talk with Erian.
- So I I had befriended this young guy.
- And there were others over time who he befriended in various ways and so on.
- Do you think they're more likely to be friendly, to befriend us, or to destroy us?
- She goes there and she ends up befriending the people that all live around her.
- He was single and befriended this old woman who had a lot of money.
- But they also befriend Ukrainian writers, right?
- If you're at her, she's the she's the woman who befriended me in the jail.
- So you're not supposed to befriend them or just smile at them on the streets.
- It is worth finding these people if you can and befriending them and really looking at a business deal.
- And the way, the way to, to make use of those people is to befriend them and empathise with them.
- I had to truly face it and befriend it, not fight it.
- The dude Jeff Low, The dude Jeff low that he befriends scumbag.
- And now it's paid off because people, people befriend me.
- It's literally like if one doesn't approve, befriend him, don't befriend him anymore.
- This whole notion that women need to tend and befriend.
Examples
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I befriended an old lady who was very rich and I took care of her estate because I was intelligent and great with numbers.
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She goes there and she ends up befriending the people that all live around her.
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Like I was just, can I just befriend all of you?
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Do you think that in your lifetime you will be able to befriend an Indian or somebody like that?
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Done nothing but befriend and encourage your quest for knowledge
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But they also befriend Ukrainian writers, right?
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Immediately afterward, the participants were asked about their willingness to befriend and help this child.
Academic text (1995) -
In his childhood, he had once befriended a little blind girl in the religious school.
Academic text (2006) -
The town would have to learn how to befriend tourists, I thought, how to lure rather than frighten.
Fiction book (1999) -
For two years, Debeir befriended adolescent girls he met in Internet chat rooms.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
443
2.7
To help and support someone when they are going through a hard time
134
1.0
Begin to be friendly with someone
Antonyms
How Friendly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Befriend is made of the part be- meaning 'make' and friend, so it literally means to 'make someone your friend' and today it means to act as a friend or offer help and support.