befriend
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- enPR: bĭfrĕnd, (deprecated use of
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Verb
befriend (third-person singular simple present befriends, present participle befriending, simple past and past participle befriended)
- (transitive) To become a friend of, to make friends with.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 143.
- Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me.
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- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 143.
- (transitive, dated) To act as a friend to, to assist.
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- Brother servants must befriend one another.
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- (transitive) To favor.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
- If it will please Caesar / To be so good to Caesar, as to hear me, / I shall beseech him to befriend himself.
- 1709, John Denham "The Sophy", in Poems and translations: with the Sophy, a tragedy, Fifth edition [1]
- Now if your plots be ripe, you are befriended / With opportunity.
- 1709, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend; / His praise is lost, who stays till all commend.
- 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato: A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants, Act II, edited and published by Jacob Tonson (1733)
- See them embarked, And tell me if the winds and seas befriend them.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 4, "Morrison's Pill"
- This Universe has its Laws. If we walk according to the Law, the Law-Maker will befriend us; if not, not.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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Translations
make friends — see make friends
to act as a friend to
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