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un-friend

un-friend is the alternative form of unfriend.

Meaning of unfriend

Noun

unfriend (plural unfriends)

  1. 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.1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume II (in English), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and...

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Forms of un-friend

Noun
pluralun-friends
Verb
third-person singular presentun-friends
present participleun-friending
past participleun-friended
pastun-friended

Questions about un-friend

What is un-friend the alternative form of?
Un-friend is the alternative form of unfriend.

Words near un-friend in the dictionary

  1. un-forget
  2. un-forgets
  3. un-forgetting
  4. un-forgot
  5. un-forgotten
  6. un-friend
  7. un-friended
  8. un-friending
  9. un-friends
  10. un-grieve
  11. un-grieved

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Adapted from Wiktionary: un-friend (page history and authors); unfriend (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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