FRIENDED Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

friended

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past tense of friend

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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

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