defund

verb

de·​fund (ˌ)dē-ˈfənd How to pronounce defund (audio)
defunded; defunding; defunds

transitive verb

: to withdraw funding from

Examples of defund in a Sentence

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The Washington Examiner first reported that the GEC funded a British group called the Global Disinformation Index, which crafted a blacklist of conservative media outlets to defund them and worked to pressure advertisers. Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Dec. 2024 For Julio Ricardo Varela, an MSNBC columnist and founder of the Latino Newsletter, the political battles and calls to defund NMAL over the museum’s content and ideology are a frustrating distraction. Carole V. Bell, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024 Some had taken Hubbard’s interview with Fox News after a November campus rally to support DEI to mean the board would vote to defund the massive DEI program. Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024 Another casualty will be international law, as embodied in institutions from the U.N. (which many MAGA Republicans want to defund) to the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for defund 

Word History

First Known Use

1948, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of defund was in 1948

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“Defund.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defund. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.

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