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Keep company with awfully tense friar (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fraternise

'keep company with' is the definition.
('keep company with'->'fraternize' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')

'awfully tense friar' is the wordplay.
'awfully' indicates an anagram.
'tense'+'friar'='tensefriar'
'tensefriar' is an anagram of 'FRATERNISE'.

(Other definitions for fraternise that I've seen before include "Meet socially" , "Trains free (anag.)" , "Consort" , "Be friendly with" , "Associate with" .)

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