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befriend

  1. sitoa, tehdä jksta jklle läheisen, yhdistää, kiinnittää, kytkeä, luoda läheinen suhde jkhun, pelata yhteen, synkata, osoittaa ystävällisyyttä jkta kohtaan, ystävystyä jkn kanssa, ystävystyä, tulla jkn kaveriksi, olla hyvää pataa.

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ystävystyä jkn kanssa, osoittaa ystävällisyyttä jkta kohtaan puhekieltä To become a friend of, to make friends with.
1854, (w), (w), p. 143.

Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me.
(quote-book)|page=52|author=Michael Lewis|year=1989|passage=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.
(quote-book)|year=1999|passage="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.
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puhekieltä To act as a friend to, to assist.
(rfdat) (w)
Brother servants must befriend one another.
(quote-book)|page=417|author=(w), Franklin Booth|year=1916|passage=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.
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puhekieltä To favor.
1599, (w), w:Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar
If it will please Caesar / To be so good to Caesar, as to hear me, / I shall beseech him to befriend himself.
1709, (w) "The Sophy", in Poems and translations: with the Sophy, a tragedy, Fifth edition http://books.google.com/books?id=J_oKSClMF7cC&pg=PA259&lpg=PA259&dq=%22Now+if+your+plots+be+ripe,+you+are+%27%27%27befriended%27%27%27+With+opportunity%22&source=bl&ots=TM1JZjzUhv&sig=YqPk32bF8zeqdypmaXvHUKGZ_pQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZQ1ZUNmmJsa_0QGBkoGgBw&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAgv=onepage&q=%22Now%20if%20your%20plots%20be%20ripe%2C%20you%20are%20%27%27%27befriended%27%27%27%20With%20opportunity%22&f=false
Now if your plots be ripe, you are befriended / With opportunity.
1709, (w), ''(w)
Be thou the first true merit to befriend; / His praise is lost, who stays till all commend.
1712, (w), w:Cato, a Tragedy|Cato: A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majestys servants'', Act II, edited and published by Jacob Tonson (1733)
See them embarked, And tell me if the winds and seas befriend them.
1843, (w), w:Past and Present (book)|Past and Present, ch. 4, "Morrison's Pill"
This Universe has its Laws. If we walk according to the Law, the Law-Maker will befriend us; if not, not.

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