unfollow

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ follow.

Pronunciation

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Verb

unfollow (third-person singular simple present unfollows, present participle unfollowing, simple past and past participle unfollowed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, social media) To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity).
   • 2009 April 22, Maureen Dowd, “To Tweet or Not to Tweet”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     With Twitter, it’s as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.

   • 2022 December 8, “Farsi editorial team: Mixed feelings on 60th anniversary”, in DW News‎^[2], archived from the original on 09 December 2022, Press‎^[3]:

     The calls came from Iranian intelligence as soon as the protests began. Agents threatened the family and friends of a DW editor, telling them to cut off contact with him and to unfollow him on Instagram. The journalist was said to be a "muharebbe" (Engl. warrior against God) – which is punishable by death in Iran.

Derived terms

• unfollower

Descendants

• Cantonese: unfol
• → German: entfolgen (calque)

Translations

to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 取關／取关 (zh) (qǔguān)

• Dutch: ontvolgen (nl)
• Finnish: lopettaa seuraaminen
• French: se désabonner, arrêter de suivre
• German: entfolgen (de)
• Hungarian: kikövet
• Polish: przestać obserwować pf
• Portuguese: desseguir
• Spanish: dejar de seguir
• Turkish: takipten çıkmak

See also

• unfriend
• unsubscribe