unfriend

un·friend

[uhn-frend]
verb (used with object)
to remove (a person) from one's list of friends, or contacts, on a social-networking Web site.
Also, de·friend [dee-frend] .

Origin:
2005–10; un-2 + friend ( def 8 )

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unfriend
in the Facebook sense, attested from November 2007, from un- (1) "not" + friend. A noun unfriend "enemy" is recorded from late 13c., chiefly in Scottish, and was still in use in the 19th century.
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