Act of Ending Friendship [closed]
Solution 1:
English doesn't have a common word or term for a friendship breaking up, like it does for a romantic relationship breaking up (eg. divorce, break up, split up, separate).
A fall out is the noun that most commonly comes to mind.
fall out noun to have an argument or disagreement that ends a relationship:
Joan and I had a fall out over money and we're no longer friends.
You can use fell out as a verb.
Joan and I fell out over money and we're no longer friends.
You could simply say stopped being friends.
Joan and I had a dispute about money and we're no longer friends.
Joan and I had a dispute about money and we're no longer on speaking terms.
Joan and I had a dispute about money and we've stopped being friends.
Solution 2:
You could use the word "rupture", a breach of harmonious, friendly, or peaceful relations. It applies for both friendship and love.
Example: The rupture with Johnson was painful, but she came to see it as a liberation.
Solution 3:
Alienated, disaffected, estranged, former, antecedent, erstwhile, deposed, heretofore, and ci-devant come to mind.
- Alienated: Cause (someone) to feel isolated or estranged, or to become unsympathetic or hostile
- Disaffected: Dissatisfied with the people in authority and no longer willing to support them
- Estranged: (Of a person) no longer close or affectionate to someone
- Former: Having previously filled a particular role or been a particular thing
- Antecedent: Preceding in time or order; previous or preexisting
- Erstwhile: former; that until recently was the type of person or thing described but is not any more
- Deposed: Removed from office or from power suddenly and forcefully
- Heretofore: Before now
- Ci-devant: From or in an earlier time (used to indicate that someone or something once possessed a specified characteristic but no longer does so); Origin...Early 18th century: French, literally 'heretofore'.
Per OED