befriend
ハワイのカウアイ島の人気トレイルスポットで、邦人女性が崖から突き落とされ、重傷を負いました。外務省によると、女性は入院中だが、命に別条はないとのこと。警察は、女性を崖から突き落とした疑いがあるとして３７歳の男の写真を公開し、行方を捜しています。
最近はFacebookでfriend/unfriendなどという動詞が用いられていますが、befriendは「友（味方）になる、世話をする、〈人を〉助ける、力を貸す」という意味の動詞です。ここでは「いろいろと彼らの世話をしてあげていた」あたりの意味合いになります。
be＋がprefix（接頭辞）として、動詞や名詞、さらには形容詞の頭についた動詞はこのほか、たくさんありますので（例：beset, behead, belittle, bespeakなど）、一度、辞書のbe-のところで確認をしておきましょう。（UG）
Search continues for man suspected of throwing tourist off hiking trail
Kauai police continue to search Tuesday for a man believed to have thrown a Japanese tourist off a popular trail on Kauai's North Shore Sunday.
The tourist was airlifted to Wilcox Memorial Hospital Sunday afternoon where she remains in critical condition .
Kauai police shutdown access to the popular trail at Ke'e Beach Monday and Tuesday while they search for the man believed to have thrown the tourist from the trail.
Police are searching for 37-year-old Justin Wynn Klein on suspicion of attempted murder. Witnesses reported to police that they saw him throw the woman from off the trail that hugs the picturesque Na Pali Coast.
Kauai police escorted hikers out of the area near the start of the popular Kalalau trail, as they search For Klein.
In the windows of businesses nearby, hang posters of Klein, a former Kauai resident, now suspected of attempted murder.
"It's pretty shocking for the island of Kauai," said Lihue resident Joanie Lemi. "It shouldn't be happening on Kauai. This is a place to just come out and relax."
The Japanese woman and a friend had been camping nearby. Debbie, who asked us only to use her first name, met the women over the weekend.
"They were just arm in arm, singing and humming and they were just like happy," Debbie commented. "She just had the happiest smile on her face."
Debbie added that Klein met them on the trial as well and became acquainted with the pair.
"He befriended them when they were here," Debbie added. "They were camping in the beach park and they seemed friendly, and you know, met a lot of people."
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