(v. t.) To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
(2) She rented a flat to be near his grave at Vienne, near Lyons, and was befriended by a neighbour, the octogenarian Baron Philippe de Rothschild, who had run a theatre in his youth.
(3) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
(4) Their biggest break was to move into Russia just after the break-up of the Soviet Union, buying up half the country's aluminium production facilities and befriending Oleg Deripaska, the oligarch associate of Nat Rothschild and Peter Mandelson.
(5) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
(6) With eyes like big schooners of sherry he looks like a loveable alien you might like to befriend and take home."
(7) He giggles, and says people are going to be sadly disappointed if they befriend him for his lavish spending.
(8) Jurassic Park, for example, was never going to be a charming story about a young boy who successfully befriends a ravenous if depressed Tyrannosaurus rex.
(9) I Hate Being Single A Brooklyn hipster looks for love after being dumped, trying everything from an underground singles cult to befriending his banker.
(10) Though deadlocked at home, Barack Obama impressed both sides of British politics and in 2009 entered the hostile atmosphere of the Kremlin to befriend the then-president Dmitry Medvedev and make headway on a difficult disarmament treaty.
(11) The Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) service has been running for close to a decade to provide statutory advocacy for non-befriended people such as dementia sufferers who lack the capacity to make decisions on accommodation and medical treatment.
(12) Janan Mosazai, the Afghan ambassador in Islamabad, urged the cadets to befriend their Pakistani counterparts at the training academy.
(13) Much has been made of Mary Beard’s approach of befriending and even writing job references for some of her trolls .
(14) She befriends fellow models Jerry Hall and Jessica Lange.
(15) Edgerton also stars in a key supporting role as the sinister local man who attempts to befriend the new arrivals.
(16) The jury heard how Arshid and Basharat plied some of the girls with alcohol or drugs after initially befriending them.
(17) David Oelhoffen Loin des Hommes, meanwhile, focuses on the Franco-Algerian war and stars Viggo Mortensen as a teacher who befriends a dissident.
(18) Later, Studs would guide the careers of Big Bill Broonzy and other blues stars, and befriend Billie Holiday.
(19) Guided by Paul Britton and with the approval of those at the top of the Met, they used "Lizzy James" to befriend Stagg through a lonely hearts ad.
(20) There are some 3,000 Paro seals worldwide, the vast majority in Japan where they have even been used to befriend earthquake survivors.
Unfriend
Definition:
(n.) One not a friend; an enemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coulson said he had been on '"not unfriendly terms" with Hayman during his time at the News of the World: "I may have seen him socially, but we were not pals.
(2) Because we see a regime as unfriendly, we assume the worst motives and intentions, fuelling our perception of threat.
(3) And they have been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies, whatever you want to call them, about their activities to my face, to the face of others, on many different occasions.” On Monday the Russian foreign ministry said that US-Russian relations are enduring a difficult period “because of the targeted unfriendly actions of Washington”.
(4) "Declaring the EU offices to be a legitimate attack target is more than the unfriendly act of a machine that knows no bounds and may be out of the control of politics and the courts."
(5) During the cold war, the US also employed economic sanctions to destabilise unfriendly governments, especially in Latin America, though they do not appear to have played more than a minor role, even where regime change eventually occurred.
(6) Facebook, which was targeted last year by the Greenpeace Unfriend Coal campaign, is building a new data centre in Sweden, its largest yet, to be powered by hydroelectricity.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Russia cancels Turkey meeting and warns its citizens not to visit The Russian defence ministry said on its website that it considered the “actions of the Turkish air force as an unfriendly act”, adding that it was “designing a complex of measures directed to respond such incidents”.
(8) Oddly, that unfriendly-to-women aura remained in not-gay David Steel's milieu.
(9) He added: “It is nothing less than an unfriendly act which is already having a very serious impact on bilateral relations.” Natalegawa said summoning the ambassador was “not considered a light step” but was the “minimum” that could be done to “consolidate the situation”.
(10) "Hate the new website as it is so tricky to use," wrote Sarah Milford, while another customer, Kay Floyd, commented: "Refuse to shop online as the website is the most user unfriendly and awkward to navigate.
(11) Gay's the Word has survived having its stock seized on grounds of indecency by customs officers; it has been threatened by soaring rents, unfriendly council policies, and the rise of internet selling.
(12) High P scorers have been found to be cold, unfriendly, hostile, etc., and it is suggested that the lower P scores of the intravenous users may be partly due to possible hostility-reducing effects of the narcotics used by this group.
(13) This, said Kadyrov, was because Putin is a “wise, courageous, resolute Head, who managed to withstand unfriendly campaign, which is conducted by the USA and its assistants”.
(14) Liu Xiaoming more than hinted that the 11th-hour postponement was seen as an unfriendly move and that the new government risked jeopardising future relations with China more broadly.
(15) China must be aware that Palmer’s rampant rascality serves as a symbol that Australian society has an unfriendly attitude toward China.
(16) It is not, perhaps, the easiest time to become the new chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), especially with a general election on the way and the voluble, airwaves-friendly but coalition-unfriendly Clare Gerada act to follow.
(17) Having an occupant of the White House who is unfriendly towards your business is not a comfortable position,” Saunders added.
(18) This doesn’t bother me now that I’m settled in but in the beginning I was very unhappy in what I thought was a cold, unfriendly city.
(19) People often assume that budget flights are somehow more eco-unfriendly than expensive ones.
(20) "The government gave the clear impression that this had been done at the request of the Church of England … but the bishop of Leicester said: 'We didn't ask for it' … and was very upset about it because it gave the impression that the Church of England were unfriendly towards gays."