befriend

They fought alongside them, healed them, and often befriended them.

I declare, Mr. Maitland, I think your usual luck must have befriended you here.

Joe remained in good spirits, for had not Mr. Elliott befriended him?

But dearest of all is remembrance of the evening long ago when he befriended us at Sutter's Fort.

I trust, Signor Corsini, there are no reservations in your expressions of loyalty to those who have advanced and befriended you?

It may be that he remembered also that the Turks had befriended his own race when the Russians had been their bitterest enemies.