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"etymology_text": "From be- + foe, modelled after befriend.",
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"ref": "2008, John Tarolli, Road Warriors",
"text": "Take it from me; it is helpful to remain buoyant when identifying fish to befriend or \"befoe.\"",
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"(transitive, intransitive) To make or become a foe."
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"ref": "1874, Andrew Archibald Paton, Henry Beyle (otherwise de Stendahl)",
"text": "What will the great coming Russian revolution do? Will it destroy the aristocracy, as in France, or will it leave it standing? Will it befriend or befoe the large non-Russian element of the western provinces?",
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},
{
"ref": "1953, Charlotte Ida McDow Rodman, The McDow family in America",
"text": "M. C. Witherspoon in the presence of each other Witnessed the due execution thereof. J. J. McMullan Sworn to befoe me this 21st day of Jan. 1842.",
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"ref": "1953, Charlotte Ida McDow Rodman, The McDow family in America",
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