make friendly

To act in a friendly or conciliatory way.

Verb

  1. To act in a friendly or conciliatory way.
    • What surprised me most, though, was the way the gals hung round for free tickets. ¶ They didn’t make any bones of it, but come up and made friendly with me the easiest I ever experienced. It was so sorter onusual that...
    • “Here you have the word friendly,” the teacher said, pointing to another red-pencil wound. “You said, ‘dog and cat can not make friendly.’ We do not used that word in that way.” - 1970, Joanne Greenberg, chapter 10, in...
    • She told them, the first time they came up to her to make friendly, that Blossom made her want to throw up. - 1996, Cynthia Voigt, chapter 2, in Bad Girls, New York: Scholastic, page 49:

Forms

makes friendly making friendly made friendly