Befriend
verb
To become friends with someone.
She always manages to befriend the most interesting people.
Often appears as...
- befriend someone
- befriend a stranger
verb
To become friends with someone.
She always manages to befriend the most interesting people.
Often appears as...
- befriend someone
- befriend a stranger
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Social Action
Befriending often implies taking the initiative to start a friendship.
He decided to befriend his new coworkers by inviting them to lunch.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Intent
'Befriend' suggests a kind and welcoming attitude towards another person.
Despite their differences, she made an effort to befriend her new neighbor.
Pro Tip 3/3Voluntary Connection
Using 'befriend' means the friendship is created by choice and free will, not obligation.
He chose to befriend the exchange students to help them feel welcome.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Action
Befriending often implies taking the initiative to start a friendship.
He decided to befriend his new coworkers by inviting them to lunch.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Intent
'Befriend' suggests a kind and welcoming attitude towards another person.
Despite their differences, she made an effort to befriend her new neighbor.
Pro Tip 3/3Voluntary Connection
Using 'befriend' means the friendship is created by choice and free will, not obligation.
He chose to befriend the exchange students to help them feel welcome.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Action
Befriending often implies taking the initiative to start a friendship.
He decided to befriend his new coworkers by inviting them to lunch.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Intent
'Befriend' suggests a kind and welcoming attitude towards another person.
Despite their differences, she made an effort to befriend her new neighbor.
Pro Tip 3/3Voluntary Connection
Using 'befriend' means the friendship is created by choice and free will, not obligation.
He chose to befriend the exchange students to help them feel welcome.
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I am the son of a...
My particular group's focus was on youth violence, and having been the victim of bullying for most of my life, this was a subject in which I felt particularly passionate. The members of our group came from many different walks of life. One day toward the end of the convention, I found out that one of the kids I had befriended
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Embrace your raw,...
to be a stranger to ourselves so the right people might befriend us and the right schools might accept us, and the right jobs might hire us, and the right parties might invite us, and, someday, the right God might invite us to the right heaven and close his pearly gates behind us, so we can bow down to Him forever and ever.
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Adam Savage: My...
but befriended through some prop deals, was the manager of a local foundry. He took my master Falcon pattern, he actually did lost wax casting in bronze for me, and this is the bronze I got back. And this is, after some acid etching, the one that I ended up with. And this thing, it's deeply, deeply satisfying to me.
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How to have better...
You see it in many different ways. They don't want to befriend one another. They don't want to date one another. If they do, if they find out, they find each other less attractive, and they more and more don't want their children to marry someone who supports the other party, a particularly shocking statistic.
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What happens to people...
that they can't focus on faraway objects anymore. The isolation is so deep and profound that one of our clients would lie on the floor of his cell for hours, just hoping to catch a glimpse of someone's feet as they walked past the door of his cell. Another befriended a wasp that flew into his cell,
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Lee Mokobe: A powerful...
I befriended silence in the hopes that my sin would burn and salve my mouth would dissolve like sugar on tongue, but shame lingered as an aftertaste. And in an attempt to reintroduce me to sanctity, my mother told me of the miracle I was, said I could grow up to be anything I want.
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Why civilians suffer...
When the war was over, I got permission -- unbelievably -- from my medical school to take some time off and follow some of the families that I had befriended in the camp back to their village in Kosovo, and understand how they navigated life in this postwar setting.
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Sisonke Msimang: If a...
There is nothing like that feel-good factor you get from listening to a fantastic story where you feel like you climbed that mountain, right, or that you befriended that death row inmate. But you didn't. You haven't done anything. Listening is an important
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This Clown Philosopher...
clowns in a circus are the human connection for the audience if there's someone who's going to reach out and shake your hand and befriend you at the circus it's ultimately going to be the clown so whatever your character is the
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Can you solve the bridge...
Otherwise, the first zombie could step on the bridge while people are still on it. Finally, there are no tricks to use here. You can't swing across, use the bridge as a raft, or befriend the zombies.
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I am the son of a...
My particular group's focus was on youth violence, and having been the victim of bullying for most of my life, this was a subject in which I felt particularly passionate. The members of our group came from many different walks of life. One day toward the end of the convention, I found out that one of the kids I had befriended
Video examples
Embrace your raw,...
to be a stranger to ourselves so the right people might befriend us and the right schools might accept us, and the right jobs might hire us, and the right parties might invite us, and, someday, the right God might invite us to the right heaven and close his pearly gates behind us, so we can bow down to Him forever and ever.
Video examples
Adam Savage: My...
but befriended through some prop deals, was the manager of a local foundry. He took my master Falcon pattern, he actually did lost wax casting in bronze for me, and this is the bronze I got back. And this is, after some acid etching, the one that I ended up with. And this thing, it's deeply, deeply satisfying to me.
Video examples
How to have better...
You see it in many different ways. They don't want to befriend one another. They don't want to date one another. If they do, if they find out, they find each other less attractive, and they more and more don't want their children to marry someone who supports the other party, a particularly shocking statistic.
Video examples
What happens to people...
that they can't focus on faraway objects anymore. The isolation is so deep and profound that one of our clients would lie on the floor of his cell for hours, just hoping to catch a glimpse of someone's feet as they walked past the door of his cell. Another befriended a wasp that flew into his cell,
Video examples
Lee Mokobe: A powerful...
I befriended silence in the hopes that my sin would burn and salve my mouth would dissolve like sugar on tongue, but shame lingered as an aftertaste. And in an attempt to reintroduce me to sanctity, my mother told me of the miracle I was, said I could grow up to be anything I want.
Video examples
Why civilians suffer...
When the war was over, I got permission -- unbelievably -- from my medical school to take some time off and follow some of the families that I had befriended in the camp back to their village in Kosovo, and understand how they navigated life in this postwar setting.
Video examples
Sisonke Msimang: If a...
There is nothing like that feel-good factor you get from listening to a fantastic story where you feel like you climbed that mountain, right, or that you befriended that death row inmate. But you didn't. You haven't done anything. Listening is an important
Video examples
This Clown Philosopher...
clowns in a circus are the human connection for the audience if there's someone who's going to reach out and shake your hand and befriend you at the circus it's ultimately going to be the clown so whatever your character is the
Video examples
Can you solve the bridge...
Otherwise, the first zombie could step on the bridge while people are still on it. Finally, there are no tricks to use here. You can't swing across, use the bridge as a raft, or befriend the zombies.
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Viola Davis
American Actress
I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food. I have befriended people in the neighborhood who I knew had mothers who cooked three meals a day for food, and I sacrificed a childhood for food and grew up in immense shame.
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Louise Linton
Scottish Actress
I befriended a homeless man five years ago, bought him a new set of teeth, helped him get his life on track. A writer for 'Elle' spent two hours talking to this guy and discarded almost everything he said. When the story came out, we both were weeping while reading it on the street!
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Canadian Activist
I was as alone as a person can be. I could not turn to a friend, for nobody wished to befriend me. I was toxic, and everyone knew it. To be near me was to be near hardship. Wise people stayed far away. I was alone, atop a mountain of rage. Why was I made to wear these awful scars?
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Nathan Fillion
Canadian Actor
I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.
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Roy Hodgson
English Businessman
All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don't go their way late in life as they did early in life.
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Adam Silvera
American Author
I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me when I told them I was in the middle of my first book.
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Queen Rania of Jordan
Jordanian Royalty
Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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Arthur Ashe
American Tennis Player
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
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Emily Dickinson
American Poet
Fortune befriends the bold.
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Viola Davis
American Actress
I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food. I have befriended people in the neighborhood who I knew had mothers who cooked three meals a day for food, and I sacrificed a childhood for food and grew up in immense shame.
Quote examples
Louise Linton
Scottish Actress
I befriended a homeless man five years ago, bought him a new set of teeth, helped him get his life on track. A writer for 'Elle' spent two hours talking to this guy and discarded almost everything he said. When the story came out, we both were weeping while reading it on the street!
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Canadian Activist
I was as alone as a person can be. I could not turn to a friend, for nobody wished to befriend me. I was toxic, and everyone knew it. To be near me was to be near hardship. Wise people stayed far away. I was alone, atop a mountain of rage. Why was I made to wear these awful scars?
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Nathan Fillion
Canadian Actor
I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.
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Roy Hodgson
English Businessman
All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don't go their way late in life as they did early in life.
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Adam Silvera
American Author
I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me when I told them I was in the middle of my first book.
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Queen Rania of Jordan
Jordanian Royalty
Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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Arthur Ashe
American Tennis Player
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
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Emily Dickinson
American Poet
Fortune befriends the bold.
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