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defriend

verb

Etymology

From de- + friend.

  1. derived from *preyH-✻ — “to please; to love”
  2. inherited from *frijōndz✻ — “friend, loved one”
  3. inherited from *friund✻
  4. inherited from frēond
  5. inherited from freend
  6. formed as defriend — “de- + friend”

Definitions

  1. To remove from one's list of friends (e.g. on a social networking website).

    • 2005, Schmitt et al, Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design But why subject myself and friends to the awkward social construct of being virtually "defriended" because I want to save some space on a Web page?
    • Likewise, the actions of friending or defriending someone send out messages of their own.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for defriend. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA