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soft-blocked

soft-blocked is the simple past and past participle of soft-block.

Meaning of soft-block

Verb

soft-block (third-person singular simple present soft-blocks, present participle soft-blocking, simple past and past participle soft-blocked)

  1. (Internet, transitive) To block (a user) on social media and then immediately unblock them, so that the user will (perhaps unknowingly) no longer follow or engage with the blocking user's posts.
    • Softblocking is not a built-in function, but a strategy. There are a few ways of doing it, but the idea is to create a sort of inverted mute.2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer

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Questions about soft-blocked

What is soft-blocked the simple past and past participle of?
Soft-blocked is the simple past and past participle of soft-block.

Words near soft-blocked in the dictionary

  1. soft wheats
  2. soft X-ray
  3. soft X-rays
  4. soft-billed
  5. soft-block
  6. soft-blocked
  7. soft-blocking
  8. soft-blocks
  9. soft-boiled
  10. soft-brick
  11. soft-cancel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soft-blocked (page history and authors); soft-block (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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