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be⋅friend

  [bi-frend]
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–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

Synonyms:
assist, comfort, succor; welcome.
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be·friend   (bĭ-frěnd')   
tr.v.   be·friend·ed, be·friend·ing, be·friends
To behave as a friend to.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

befriend 
1559, from be- + friend (q.v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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