BEFRIENDED Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

befriended

verb

past tense of befriend

as in joined

to become a friend to (someone) He befriended the new student.

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Recent Examples of befriended Having befriended Billy Ray Cyrus in the early ’90s, Parton was Cyrus’s honorary godmother and even lived up to that designation through guest spots on Hannah Montana. — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026 Cyrus’s father, singer Billy Ray Cyrus, befriended Parton in the 1990s and later asked her to be Miley’s godmother. — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 26 Aug. 2026 Sometimes Sam and Mymonie hosted Mike Karoub’s father, Hussien, whom Sam had befriended. — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026 Iger befriended Lakers’ current head coach JJ Redick when Redick played for the Clippers from 2013 to 2017. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026 On the island, the team makes the acquaintance of Rex (Hayden Chamberlain), a paraplegic dog who has been stranded there for two years and in that time has befriended the dinosaurs and constructed an elaborate treehouse for himself. — Caspar Salmon, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026 This all changed one day when another guest, who had befriended me, got a room and left the shelter. — The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2026 Indeed, the movie opens with Ed quizzing an older Greek man he’s befriended on the Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester, before berating him for confusing his Bottega Veneta loafers for Sebago. — CNN Money, 17 July 2026 The rapper personally befriended Hamilton and invited him to the family’s Easter celebration in 2015. — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026

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With nine homers in a single game, the Cubs joined the 2025 Yankees, who did it twice, in a tie for the second-most homers in a single game.

— Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
By 2012, Will Beedle — who joined the company in 2006 as menswear director — was promoted to chief creative director, before stepping down in 2021.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2026

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Trump, who had a close relationship with Lindsey Graham, traveled to South Carolina to campaign with Graham last week and held a tele-rally for her on Monday.

— Justin Papp, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
By the time the smoke has traveled across several states, the smoky smell is completely gone.

— Michael A. Robinson, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026

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