Synonyms of befriended

befriended

verb

past tense of befriend

as in joined

to become a friend to (someone)

He befriended the new student.

Related Words

• joined
• friended
• traveled
• associated
• consorted
• bonded
• connected
• hobnobbed
• fraternized
• ran
• collaborated
• related
• hooked up
• chummed
• sorted
• rallied
• cooperated
• linked
• attached
• teamed
• mixed
• grouped
• affiliated
• socialized
• allied
• tied
• mingled
• hung (around or out)
• companied
• coupled
• consociated
• banded
• ganged
• colluded
• clubbed
• leagued
• interrelated
• got on
• sided
• conjoined
• knotted
• got along
• messed around
• confederated
• palled (around)
• wedded

Dissimilar Words

• avoided
• shunned
• snubbed
• alienated
• estranged
• dispersed
• cold-shouldered
• disbanded
• divorced
• split (up)
• split
• broke up
• severed
• dissociated
• sundered
• disjoined
• disunited

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of befriended

In high school, Campbell befriended a student named Will Reinart. — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

In August 2021, Brown allegedly befriended a woman and her family and then disappeared with their 4-day-old baby in Fairfield, Alabama, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. — Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026

Having befriended Billy Ray Cyrus in the early ’90s, Parton was Cyrus’s honorary godmother and even lived up to that designation through guest spots on Hannah Montana. — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026

Cyrus’s father, singer Billy Ray Cyrus, befriended Parton in the 1990s and later asked her to be Miley’s godmother. — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 26 Aug. 2026

Sometimes Sam and Mymonie hosted Mike Karoub’s father, Hussien, whom Sam had befriended. — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026

Iger befriended Lakers’ current head coach JJ Redick when Redick played for the Clippers from 2013 to 2017. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026

On the island, the team makes the acquaintance of Rex (Hayden Chamberlain), a paraplegic dog who has been stranded there for two years and in that time has befriended the dinosaurs and constructed an elaborate treehouse for himself. — Caspar Salmon, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026

This all changed one day when another guest, who had befriended me, got a room and left the shelter. — The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2026