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unfriend

SayUN-frend/ˈʌnfɹɛnd/

Verbunfriends, unfriending, unfriended

Noun pluralunfriends

3 meanings of unfriend

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  1. 1
    verbtransitive
    To remove someone from your list of friends on a website like Facebook.

    Like crossing a name off your contact list so you stop seeing their posts.

    She decided to unfriend him after their big argument online.

    I unfriended a few people I never really talked to.

    Similardefriend

    Oppositefriend

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  2. 2
    nouncountable
    Someone who is no friend to you, an enemy.

    Like someone who stands against you instead of beside you.

    She felt surrounded by unfriends at her new school.

    Treat no one as an unfriend until they give you a reason.

    Similarnonfriend

    Oppositefriend

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  3. 3
    verbrareintransitive
    To end a friendship with someone.

    Like cutting a rope that once tied two people together.

    The two brothers chose to unfriend after the long inheritance dispute.

    "I hope, sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us."
    1659, Thomas Fuller, The Appeal of Injured InnocenceHere, Unfriended means no longer friends with each other.

    Similarpart, split

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Origins

Meaning 2

From Middle English unfreend, made from un- plus friend.

Meanings 1, 3

From the verb prefix un- plus friend.