unfriend

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who is not a friend

   One who is not a friend; an enemy.

   • It is even as I suspected, my lord, […] Ye have back-friends, my lord, that is, unfriends—or, to be plain, enemies—about the person of the Prince.
   • I wonder often it has not drawn her out of the grave to come and stand before me, and hear me tell her how I loved her. For, sir, we parted unfriends.
   • Thus many unfriends and some friends of the Capital agree upon the same policy with diverse and contradictory motives[…]
2. 2

   To sever as friends.

   • "I hope, sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us."
3. 3

   To defriend

   To defriend; to remove from one's friends list (e.g. on a social networking website).

   • "I asked her why, she said it was because I didn't comment, and I shrugged and said whatever. I didn't unfriend her."
   • Without unfriending someone, you can now choose to limit or block (unsubscribe) someone from your newsfeed or choose to see only what Facebook deems as very important.

The neighborhood

• synonymdefriend
• antonymfriend
• antonymbefriend
• neighborunfollow
• neighborunsubscribe