unfriending
- 1Present participle and gerund of unfriend.
He regretted unfriending his cousin over a minor political disagreement.
Unfriending a coworker after a dispute can make the next meeting awkward.
Note
One -ing form doing two jobs: a participle after be (she was unfriending half her contacts) and a gerund naming the act itself (unfriending a coworker rarely goes unnoticed). Behind it stand two verbs: the everyday social-network one, interchangeable with defriend, and a rare older one meaning to end a friendship outright. A friends list in view signals the first; a broken friendship with no screen involved signals the second.
unfriending is a form of unfriend
unfriend, verb: To remove someone from one's list of contacts on a social networking site, ending the connection there. Full entry
- Forms
- unfriendunfriends he/she/itunfriending -ing formunfriended past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- unfriend → unfriending: add -ing
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