Definition of befriend
transitive verb
:to become or act as a friend to
- befriended the new student
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Examples of befriend in a Sentence
He befriended the new student.
Recent Examples of befriend from the Web
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The woman had befriended Chan a few years before through a World of Warcraft gaming group.
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Ingrid Goes West stars Aubrey Plaza as the title character, a troubled young woman who moves across the country to track down and befriend an Instagram influencer named Taylor (Elizabeth Olsen).
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Abreu befriends the museum guard, whose backyard is a popular crossing point for monkeys.
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Inside the VBCC arena at the Nov. 10 show, the two girls befriended a Motley Crue roadie.
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Chmelik, who appears in passing as a host of brutal men from Lela’s earlier life in addition to the husband, is at his magnificent best as a kind but conflicted soldier who befriends Lela but shies away from helping her.
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The film is a comedy about the notoriously inept film director (played by Johnny Depp) who befriended the past-his-prime horror actor and cast him in such micro-budget 1950s movies as Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 from Outer Space.
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The film is a comedy about the notoriously inept film director (played by Johnny Depp) who befriended the past-his-prime horror actor and cast him in such micro-budget 1950s movies as Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 from Outer Space.
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Tom Holland plays Peter Parker, the 15-year-old webslinger who was befriended and suited up by Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in the earlier film.
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First Known Use of befriend
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BEFRIEND Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of befriend for English Language Learners
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: to become a friend to (someone)
BEFRIEND Defined for Kids
befriend
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Definition of befriend for Students
befriended;
befriending
:to act as a friend to
We befriended the new student.
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