Befriend vs Accompany - What's the difference?
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To become a friend of, to make friends with.
* 1854 , (Henry David Thoreau), (Walden), p. 143.
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(dated) To act as a friend to, to assist.
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To favor.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare),
* 1709 , (John Denham) "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=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Now%20if%20your%20plots%20be%20ripe%2C%20you%20are%20%27%27%27befriended%27%27%27%20With%20opportunity%22&f=false]
* 1709 , (Alexander Pope), ''(An Essay on Criticism)
* 1712 , (Joseph Addison), . As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants , Act II, edited and published by Jacob Tonson (1733)
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), , ch. 4, "Morrison's Pill"
To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
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* 1581 , (Philip Sidney), An Apology of Poetry, or a Defense of Poesy , Book I:
* 1979 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), The History of England :
To supplement with; add to.
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, title= (senseid)(music) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
(music) To perform an accompanying part next to another instrument.
(obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.
* (rfdate) Holland:
(obsolete) To cohabit (with).
(obsolete) To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.
In lang=en terms the difference between befriend and accompany
is that befriend is to favor while accompany is to supplement with; add to.As verbs the difference between befriend and accompany
is that befriend is to become a friend of, to make friends with while accompany is to go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.befriend
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Verb
(en verb)- Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me.
- Brother servants must befriend one another.
- If it will please Caesar / To be so good to Caesar, as to hear me, / I shall beseech him to befriend himself.
- Now if your plots be ripe, you are befriended / With opportunity.
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend ; / His praise is lost, who stays till all commend.
- See them embarked, And tell me if the winds and seas befriend them.
- 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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Verb
(en-verb)- The Persian dames, […] / In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
- Men say that they will drive away one another, […] and not accompany together.
