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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of companion.

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Examples

  • Tony Perry had "companioned" (as some had heard her put it) a number of men within the twenty-mile radius that took in both Hebrides and La Porte.

    The End of the Pier Grimes, Martha 1994

  • It should surprise no one that this bizarre scene inspired the first collaboration between gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman, who companioned Thompson's addled prose with grotesque sketches of the race's denizens.

    Matthew DeBord: The Kentucky Derby: The Most Surreal and Seedy Spectacle in All of Sports 2009

  • Back a bit more on topic, I'm wondering how the message could be refined or companioned.

    Citizens for (Ir)Responsible Government Zoe Brain 2008

  • When he saw that they looked on him with eyes of affection, he inclined to them and companioned with them and took up his abode with them, flying away in the morning whither he would and returning at eventide to pass the night by side of them.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And truly, she did be all that my heart and my spirit did desire; and she to have companioned me with Love, and to have entered my spirit into Joy.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And mayhap there did wander upward there Memory, and did go companioned by Grief.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And so I to know more in the heart, somewhat of the true dreadfulness and fear that had companioned Mine Own.

    The Night Land 2007

  • I did not like to be so companioned: I withdrew my hand, but touched his elbow with a motion, as if from his low bow I had supposed him falling, and would have helped him up — A sad slip, it might have been! said I.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Those early-arriving rudiments came from the usual sources—my parents and a few of my kin, the natural world around me which was frequently rural or wooded suburban, and from God and his various messengers, by which I do not mean winged visitors companioned with uncanny lights and soothing music.

    Letter to a Godchild Reynolds Price 2006

  • Those early-arriving rudiments came from the usual sources—my parents and a few of my kin, the natural world around me which was frequently rural or wooded suburban, and from God and his various messengers, by which I do not mean winged visitors companioned with uncanny lights and soothing music.

    Letter to a Godchild Reynolds Price 2006

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