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    To remove someone from your friends list on a social networking site, so that you are no longer connected there. It is a verb: you unfriend someone. Facebook is where the word grew up, and it is still the platform people mean by default; on other apps the word is usually 'unfollow' or 'block', which are different things. The differences matter socially. Unfriending cuts the connection completely and is often a real statement — you are done with this person, or at least done seeing them. Unfollowing quietly hides their posts while you stay connected, so it is the polite, invisible option. Blocking is the strongest: they cannot even find you. So when someone says 'she unfriended me', there is usually a story behind it, and often hurt feelings. The word is worth noticing as a piece of living English. It got common around 2008-2010 and was a word-of-the-year pick, and its shape is unusual: English normally puts un- on and on verbs meaning 'undo an action' (, unlock), but here it was stuck onto a noun, 'friend', to make a brand-new verb. There was also an old, unrelated noun 'unfriend' meaning an enemy, but nobody uses that today.

    把某人從(臉書等)好友名單移除、解除好友關係。注意跟 unfollow(只是不看他的貼文,還是好友)和 block(封鎖)不一樣。

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    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成un- (undoing an action, as in untie and unlock) + friend (here used as a verb: to make someone your friend on a site). Literally: to undo the friending.

同家族的字

  • friendthe root noun, which social media turned into a verb
  • unfollowsame un- + internet verb pattern, but a softer action
  • friendlysame root friend
  • friendshipsame root friend

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

unfriendnoun詞源 1/ˈʌnfɹɛnd/

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    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.
    • I wonder often it has not drawn her out of the grave to come and stand before me, and hear me tell her how I loved her. For, sir, we parted unfriends.

unfriendverb詞源 2/ʌnˈfɹɛnd/

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    rareTo sever as friends.

    • "I hope, sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us."
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    To defriend; to remove from one's friends list (e.g. on a social networking website).

    • "I asked her why, she said it was because I didn't comment, and I shrugged and said whatever. I didn't unfriend her."
    • Without unfriending someone, you can now choose to limit or block (unsubscribe) someone from your newsfeed or choose to see only what Facebook deems as very important.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。