befriend

Word family (noun) friend friendliness friendship friendly (adjective) friendly ≠ unfriendly friendless (verb) befriend

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbefriendbe‧friend /bɪˈfrend/ verb [transitive] FRIENDLYto behave in a friendly way towards someone, especially someone who is younger or needs help They befriended me when I first arrived in London as a student.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusbefriend• In a park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one summer afternoon I befriend a little old retired Latin teacher.• The bookmaker told Kalra he had befriended Cronje and was planning to fix the matches scheduled to be held in March.• It's fairly unusual for high school seniors to befriend freshmen.• Some dignitaries did befriend her, usually to get her away from their own localities.• He had learned that it was not to befriend his subordinates, nor to compete with or dominate them.• A group of soldiers befriended my brothers and me during the war.• His parents befriended some American soldiers who served in Wales during World War II.• Joan herself was a widow, and as an ex-nurse she befriended Stanley and began to care for him.• He ruled with justice and mercy, befriending the Moors rather than seeking to overpower them with his presence.• Its sponsor, a local arts patron named Clara Bates, befriended the teenager and installed him in her carriage house.• Bosses were not always eager to befriend trainees.

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befriend

Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they	befriend
he, she, it	befriends
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	befriended
Present perfect
I, you, we, they	have befriended
he, she, it	has befriended
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had befriended
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will befriend
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have befriended
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Continuous Form
Present
I	am befriending
he, she, it	is befriending
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you, we, they	are befriending
Past
I, he, she, it	was befriending
you, we, they	were befriending
Present perfect
I, you, we, they	have been befriending
he, she, it	has been befriending
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been befriending
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be befriending
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been befriending
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