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affriended

/əˈfɹɛndɪd/

affriended adjective: made friends; reconciled.

Adjective

affriended (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Made friends; reconciled.
    • when she saw that cruell war so ended, / And deadly foes so faithfully affrended1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 50

Origin of affriended

From a- + friend + -ed.

Questions about affriended

What does affriended mean?
Affriended means made friends; reconciled.
What part of speech is affriended?
Affriended is an adjective.
How do you pronounce affriended?
Affriended is pronounced /əˈfɹɛndɪd/.

Words near affriended in the dictionary

  1. affricatized
  2. affricatizes
  3. affricatizing
  4. affriction
  5. affrictions
  6. affriended
  7. affright
  8. affrighted
  9. affrightedly
  10. affrighten
  11. affrightened

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