unfriend

[ uhn-frend ]

verb (used with object)

1. to remove (a person) from one's list of friends, or contacts, on a social media website.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unfriend¹

2005–10; un- ² + friend (in the sense “to add to one's list of contacts”)

Example Sentences

Unfrien′dedness, the state of being unfriended; Unfrien′dliness, unkindness; Unfriend′ship, unfriendliness.

From Project Gutenberg

But I have told thee all these things to show that the King is not without some reason to be thy father's unfriend.

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The Queen said that she could not be content that either he or any else should be unfriend to Moray.

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Item, Gif it beis askit, in caise the Castell be unfriend, whair the armye shalbe placed?

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You are dealing with an emissary from a foreign power who is an unfriend of my country.

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Related Words

• block
• unfollow