Defriend

verb

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Definitions

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

    "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?"

Synonyms

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unfriendunfriend

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"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?"

Etymology

From de- + friend.

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social networking

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