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befriend - 4 dictionary results

be⋅friend

[bi-frend]
–verb (used with object)
to make friends or become friendly with; act as a friend to; help; aid: to befriend the poor and the weak.

Origin:
1550–60; be- + friend


assist, comfort, succor; welcome.
be·friend   (bĭ-frěnd')   
tr.v.   be·friend·ed, be·friend·ing, be·friends
To behave as a friend to.

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.
Language Translation for : befriend
Spanish: ofrecer amistad, amparar,
German: sich annehmen,
Japanese: ~の味方になる

befriend 
1559, from be- + friend (q.v.).
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