Definition of "befriending" [befriending]

• Present participle of befriend. (verb)

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• "What does he have to prove in befriending a young college geek (Jesse Eisenberg)?"
• "Where Clinton developed decent working relationships with the GOP leadership, especially House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, Obama has not shown much interest in befriending congressional leaders of either party - and certainly not his political opponents, who are more openly hostile than even those in the 1990s."
• "The Germans had an expert in befriending US airmen and breaking them without their knowledge he had actually made them talk."