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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"word": "entfreunden"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "makhák mereshimát khaverím",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"word": "מחק מרשימת חברים"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "infrénd",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"word": "אנפרנד"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"word": "töröl az ismerősei közül"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "chin'gu kkeunki",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"word": "친구 끊기"
},
{
"code": "li",
"lang": "Limburgish",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"word": "óntvrunje"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "udalítʹ iz druzéj",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "удали́ть из друзе́й"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otfrénditʹ",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "отфре́ндить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rasfrénditʹ",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "расфре́ндить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"word": "desamistarse"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"word": "ta bort som vän"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"word": "arkadaşlıktan çıkarmak"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vidfrendyty",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"word": "відфрендити"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"word": "huỷ kết bạn"
},
{
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "to remove from one's friends list",
"word": "embazey ra veten"
}
],
"word": "unfriend"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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