Befriend
Befriend verb - Become friends with.
Helps and befriend are semantically related In some cases you can replace term "Helps" with "Befriend", this verbs are similar.
Nearby Words: befriended, befriending
Helps
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- It also helps that Niles does genuinely try to befriend Oboro and even attempts to watch his language around her (though it doesn't always work), something he very rarely tries to do around others.
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The latter helps her befriend a young native while the former is used to help the loggers identify her as well as stop shooting at the natives.
Source: Film / The Green Inferno - Cool Old Lady: Mosetussen that Fjellrose and Dreng befriend in the second movie, who helps guide them through her old home which has been taken over by humans and several times saves them from being spotted by the humans while they try to retrieve the magical horn.
Source: Film / Julenatt I Blafjell
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