To unfriend is to remove someone from your friends list on social media: she unfriended me after the argument. The reasons vary: a fight, a contact added by mistake, a tidy-up of the list. Defriend means the same. The word is familiar but informal; neutrally, remove someone from your friends list.
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unfriend someone; be unfriended; also defriend
- I unfriended an account I had added by mistake.
- She noticed that an old classmate had unfriended her.
- He decided to unfriend the stranger rather than keep an unexplained name on his friends list.
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First versionShe unfriended with him after the argument.
RevisionShe unfriended him after the argument.
You fall out with someone and break up with someone, so with seems to belong after unfriend too. But unfriend is a transitive verb, and the person comes straight after it: unfriended him. Without the preposition, the sentence sounds natural.
Unfollow means you stop seeing someone's posts, but you can stay friends. Block usually stops the person from contacting you at all. Unfriend only removes them from your friends list.
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Use the verb with its direct object: I unfriended ___.
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the account — You need the account without with: unfriend takes its object directly, with no preposition.
Explain why you removed someone from your friends list on social media. Use unfriended.
I unfriended the duplicate account after finding the profile my cousin actually uses.
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