as in to friend
to become a friend to (someone)
He befriended the new student.
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Recent Examples of befriend
Hunter’s story appears to based on the story of Joshua Schwarz, whose parents, Penne and Wolfgang Schwarz, told the Herald Sun that Belle Gibson befriended Penne on social media after learning about Joshua’s diagnosis with a rare brain cancer.
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Sam Reed, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2025
This results in some surprising interactions: Pete befriends goth girl Nico Minoru (Grace Song) from The Runaways comics at Midtown School of Science and Technology and partners on a school project with football star Lonnie Lincoln (Eugene Byrd), who later becomes supervillain Tombstone.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2025
Robinson was a behemoth in New York—a person whose art was known to many, who befriended a multitude of famous artists, and whose writing was at one point read by just about anybody who mattered in the city’s art world.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Similar to the series, Gibson befriended one family whose son had anaplastic astrocytoma grade III.
—Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
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Sam Reed, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2025
This results in some surprising interactions: Pete befriends goth girl Nico Minoru (Grace Song) from The Runaways comics at Midtown School of Science and Technology and partners on a school project with football star Lonnie Lincoln (Eugene Byrd), who later becomes supervillain Tombstone.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2025
Robinson was a behemoth in New York—a person whose art was known to many, who befriended a multitude of famous artists, and whose writing was at one point read by just about anybody who mattered in the city’s art world.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Similar to the series, Gibson befriended one family whose son had anaplastic astrocytoma grade III.
—Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
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“Befriend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/befriend. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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