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defriending

defriending is the present participle and gerund of defriend.

Meaning of defriend

Verb

defriend (third-person singular simple present defriends, present participle defriending, simple past and past participle defriended)

  1. (uncommon, social media) To remove from one's list of friends (e.g. on a social networking website).
    • 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?2005, Schmitt et al, Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design
    Synonyms:
    unfriend

Questions about defriending

What is defriending the present participle and gerund of?
Defriending is the present participle and gerund of defriend.

Words near defriending in the dictionary

  1. defreeze
  2. defreezes
  3. defreezing
  4. defriend
  5. defriended
  6. defriending
  7. defriends
  8. defringe
  9. defringed
  10. defringes
  11. defringing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defriending (page history and authors); defriend (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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