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Befriend

//bɪˈfɹɛnd// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To become a friend of, to make friends with. transitive

    "1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 143. Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me."

  2. 2
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  3. 3
    To act as a friend to, to assist. dated, transitive

    "Brother servants must always befriend one another."

  4. 4
    To favor. transitive

    "If it will please Caesar / To be so good to Caesar, as to hear me, / I shall beseech him to befriend himself."

Etymology

From be- + friend. Compare Saterland Frisian befrüündje (“to befriend”), Dutch bevrienden (“to befriend”), German Low German befründen (“to befriend”), German befreunden (“to befriend”). Compare also West Frisian befreone (“befriended”).

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