unfriend
verb
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Pronunciation: /ˈʌnfɹɛnd/ / /ʌnˈfɹɛnd/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English unfreend, onfrend, equivalent to un- (noun/adjective prefix) + friend. Cognate with Scots unfrend (“unfriend”). Compare Old English unfriþmann, unwine.
- One who is not a friend; an enemy.
“It is even as I suspected, my lord, […] Ye have back-friends, my lord, that is, unfriends—or, to be plain, enemies—about the person of the Prince.”
“I wonder often it has not drawn her out of the grave to come and stand before me, and hear me tell her how I loved her. For, sir, we parted unfriends.”
verb
Etymology: From un- (verb prefix) + friend. Compare Dutch ontvrienden (“to unfriend”), German entfreunden (“to unfriend”).
- To sever as friends.
“"I hope, sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us."”
- To defriend; to remove from one's friends list (e.g. on a social networking website).
“"I asked her why, she said it was because I didn't comment, and I shrugged and said whatever. I didn't unfriend her."”
“Without unfriending someone, you can now choose to limit or block (unsubscribe) someone from your newsfeed or choose to see only what Facebook deems as very important.”