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verb - transitive

• on a social networking website, to remove someone from one's list of friends. The opposite of "friend". See also "defriend".

  Last edited on Jun 28 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 18 2009.

• by extension of the social networking meaning, to stop being someone's friend.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  
  Citation from "Facebook Strikes Back At iLike: No-Spam Policy Cancels Concert Alerts", The Washington Post, Erick Schonfeld, November 16 2009 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Jun 28 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jun 28 2011.

notes

• "Unfriend" was the New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year for 2009.

  Last edited on Jun 28 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 18 2009.