unfriend

[uhn-frend]

verb (used with object)

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

Sometimes de·friend [dee-frend] /diˈfrɛnd/,

Origin of unfriend

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

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Examples from the Web for unfriend

Historical Examples of unfriend

The Queen said that she could not be content that either he or any else should be unfriend to Moray.
The Mystery of Mary Stuart
Andrew Lang
Item, Gif it beis askit, in caise the Castell be unfriend, whair the armye shalbe placed?
The Works of John Knox, Volume 2 (of 6)
John Knox
You are dealing with an emissary from a foreign power who is an unfriend of my country.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931
Various
Unfrien′dedness, the state of being unfriended; Unfrien′dliness, unkindness; Unfriend′ship, unfriendliness.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)
Various
But I have told thee all these things to show that the King is not without some reason to be thy father's unfriend.
Men of Iron
Howard Pyle

Word Origin and History for unfriend

in the Facebook sense, attested from November 2007, from un- (1) "not" + friend. Related: Unfriended; unfriending. A noun unfriend "enemy" is recorded from late 13c., chiefly in Scottish, and was still in use in the 19th century.