delink

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ link.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈlɪŋk/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Verb

delink (third-person singular simple present delinks, present participle delinking, simple past and past participle delinked)

1. (transitive) To unlink, or remove a link from.
2. (transitive, MLE, slang) To discontinue meeting or maintaining social relations with, to disassociate from.
   • 2008, “Hungry” (track 3), in Chip (lyrics), Guess Who?‎^[1]:

     I live my life at 140
     Get money and fast flow just taught me
     Keep pushing, soon they'll support me
     Until then
     Same paper, same pen
     Me, I'm tryna make ends
     And delink all my fake friends

Derived terms

• delinkable
• delinker

Anagrams

• Kindle, Dinkel, kilned, inkled, dinkle, kindle, Elkind, klined, Kindel, kneidl, linked