Ääntäminen
- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /bɪˈfɹɛnd/
- IPA: /biːˈfɹɛnd/
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Määritelmät
Verbit
- (transitive) To become a friend of, to make friends with.
- (transitive, dated) To act as a friend to, to assist.
- (transitive) To favor.
Esimerkit
- Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me.
- Befriending one of the 112 managing directors was not enough; you had to befriend a managing director with clout. There was one small problem, of course. Bosses were not always eager to befriend trainees.
- "We had a professional relationship, whereas the previous vicar was a friend and had befriended me." "Were you available to befriend people? You said it in a passive voice, as though others befriended you.
- If you want to befriend the Loner, you have to be willing to show patience as he becomes more comfortable with you and what friendship entails.
- The social worker very clearly befriends the families with whom she works, and the GP becomes a friend to many of his patients.
- Child sexual abusers are highly manipulative in their befriending of parents and children and are able to deceive all types of family.
- Brother servants must befriend one another.
- an Irish section boss, whose wife (my mother having befriended her years before when first she and her husband came to Sullivan) had now, at the time my mother was compelled to make this return pilgrimage, befriended us by letting us stay - mother and us three youngsters - until she could find a house.
- This particular trainer who had repeatedly befriended "Willie" in many other ways, left the circus for a short time and upon returning to the lot approached him, thinking "Willie" would remember him
- He fled to Switzerland to escape military service, and there was befriended by the revolutionary, Angelica Balabanoff, who, pitying him in his misery and loneliness, befriended him, helping him translate a German pamphlet because he did not know the language.
- If it will please Caesar / To be so good to Caesar, as to hear me, / I shall beseech him to befriend himself.
- Now if your plots be ripe, you are befriended / With opportunity.
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend; / His praise is lost, who stays till all commend.
- See them embarked, And tell me if the winds and seas befriend them.
- This Universe has its Laws. If we walk according to the Law, the Law-Maker will befriend us; if not, not.
- If you befriend one child in your lifetime and help to mold his life toward the betterment
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