friend
/fɹɛnd/ verb C2- To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
He/she/it friends · Past friended · Past participle friended · -ing form friending
Verb forms
- Base form
- friend
- He/she/it
- friends
- Past
- friended
- Past participle
- friended
- -ing form
- friending
From the library
“My good friend,” said Franz, turning to him, while Albert continued to point his glass at every box in the theatre, “you seem determined not to approve; you are really too difficult to please.”
Observe,” said Villefort, smiling, “I do not mean to deny that both these men were revolutionary scoundrels, and that the 9th Thermidor and the 4th of April, in the year 1814, were lucky days for France, worthy of being gratefully remembered by every friend to monarchy and civil order; and that explains how it comes to pass that, fallen, as I trust he is forever, Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.
“Will you swear to be my friend forever and ever?” demanded Anne eagerly.
I solemnly swear to be faithful to my bosom friend, Diana Barry, as long as the sun and moon shall endure.
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