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befriend

verb

be·​friend bi-ˈfrend How to pronounce befriend (audio)
befriended; befriending; befriends

transitive verb

: to become or act as a friend to
befriended the new student

Example Sentences

He befriended the new student.
Recent Examples on the Web Founded in 1993, Friends of the Children pays a professional mentor to befriend and support children and their families for 12 years starting in kindergarten. Thalia Beaty, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022 This attracted the attention of Jewish groups—and of Israel, which in 1964 sent an agent named Yaakov Meidad, who’d been part of the team that had abducted Adolf Eichmann from Argentina in May 1960, to befriend Cukurs and lure him to Uruguay. Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022 Mice and chimps seem to have the scent smarts to know immediately who to befriend and who to rebuff. Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 24 June 2022 Guard 1, played by Richard P. Trujillo, is a rigid rule-follower, but Guard 2, played by Jada Alston Owens, bends the rules to both befriend and taunt Fay. San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2022 That will require him to befriend and get a confession out of Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser) and find out where the bodies of several young girls are buried before Hall's appeal goes through. Lauren Huff, EW.com, 8 June 2022 Delaney got to know and befriend an array of modern artists and writers, from Georgia O’Keeffe, Stuart Davis and Alfred Stieglitz to Henry Miller and James Baldwin. Washington Post, 8 June 2022 These agents could try to befriend them and gain their trust. Peter Suciu, Forbes, 15 July 2022 Inherently, this includes joyous gratitude for the chance to grapple with—and even learn to befriend—challenges. Outside Online, 26 Mar. 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1559, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of befriend was in 1559

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