befriend

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɪˈfɹɛnd/    美 /bəˈfɹɛnd/|/bi-/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To become a friend of (someone), to make friends with (someone). also,figuratively,transitive
    — Good Seruilius, vvill you befriend mee ſo farre, as to vſe mine ovvne vvords to him?
  2. To act as a friend to (someone, especially a client) by providing companionship and support; to assist, to help. transitive
    — [B]e ſure employ ſome of the Servants to hold the Horſe vvhen your Maſter mounts. This I vvould have you do, vvhen your Maſter only alights, to call in for a fevv Minutes: For Brother-ſervants muſt alvvays befriend one another, and that alſo concerns your Maſter's Honour; becauſe he cannot do leſs than give a Piece of Money to him vvho holds his Horſe.
  3. To benefit or favour (someone or something); also, to advocate or promote (someone or something). figuratively,transitive
    — Hence therefore, euery leader to his charge, / For on their anſvvere vvill vve ſet on them, / And God befriend vs as our cauſe is juſt.

词形变化

befriends present,singular,third-person befriending participle,present befriended participle,past befriended past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template befriend infinitive befriend first-person,present,singular befriended first-person,past,singular befriend present,second-person,singular befriendest archaic,present,second-person,singular befriended past,second-person,singular befriendedst archaic,past,second-person,singular befriends present,singular,third-person befriendeth archaic,present,singular,third-person befriended past,singular,third-person befriend plural,present befriended past,plural befriend present,subjunctive befriended past,subjunctive befriend imperative,present - imperative,past befriending participle,present befriended participle,past

词汇关系

衍生词
befriendable befriendee befriender befriending befriendment unbefriend unbefriended unbefriending
相关词
friend friendly

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English bi-
English be-
Proto-Indo-European *preyH-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *priHós
Proto-Germanic *frijōną
Proto-Germanic *frijōndz
Proto-West Germanic *friund
Old English frēond
Middle English frend
English friend
English befriend
From be- (intensifying prefix) + friend (verb).
cognates
* Dutch bevrienden (“to befriend”)
* German befreunden (“to befriend”)
* German Low German befründen (“to befriend”)
* Saterland Frisian befrüündje (“to befriend”)
* West Frisian befreone (“befriended”)
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