befriended

Synonyms for befriended

verb make social acquaintance; support

1550s, from be- + friend (q.v.). Related: Befriended; befriending.

Stryker had befriended him indeed, had he permitted him to drown.

He was befriended by Florent, who taught him to read and write.

The duel is between that son and the man who has befriended his mother.

Our banks have befriended the people, and never oppressed or injured them.

The same priest who befriended her father, extended his kindness to the daughter.

But he suspected and hated me from the first; I suppose because you befriended me.

I declare, Mr. Maitland, I think your usual luck must have befriended you here.

The thought that a man whom he had befriended was opposing him rankled deeply.

I got the word from an old horsey-man whom I befriended once.

That odious Baroness had summoned everybody that had ever befriended her.