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Definition of Befriend
1. Verb. Become friends with. "Have you made friends yet in your new environment?"
Definition of Befriend
1. v. t. To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance.
Definition of Befriend
1. Verb. To make a friend of ¹
2. Verb. To act as a friend to ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Befriend
1. to act as a friend to [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Befriend
Literary usage of Befriend
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"... find their own interest so intimately connected with ours, that they will be
spurred on to befriend us from that motive, if no other should take place. ..."
2. American States, Churches, and Slavery by Joshua Rhodes Balme (1862)
"Nion towards man as criminal, and suspending their connexion with her clergy who
favour or befriend the South; but secession towards God is overlooked, ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"The God for the sake of his mother Maria- tale, may befriend the Paria. Stung by
some violent provocation, ..."
4. The Missionary Gazetteer: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Account ...by Bela Bates Edwards, Charles Williams by Bela Bates Edwards, Charles Williams (1832)
"This son, though not attached to the mission, sailed with the missionaries, and
professed a desire to befriend them, and to promote the cause of truth among ..."
5. Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin (1896)
"befriend you, and you repay me by trying to kill me. Now I will punish you.
I would have given you all the water, but now you shall have only half. ..."
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