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Autantonyms

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Words with mutually exclusive double meanings. Also, here are some:

QUASI-AUTANTONYMS: slow up/slow down; bar/debar; bone/debone; burn up/burn down; fat chance/slim chance; fill in/fill out; loosen/unloosen; ravel/unravel; restive/restless...
PSEUDO-AUTANTONYMS: catwalk/dogtrot; give in/take out; give off,put off/take on; give up,put up/take down; hereafter/therefore; hotheads/cold feet; inning/outing; input/outtake; layout/stand-in; left off/right on!; lowlands/high seas; maternity dress/paternity suit; nighthawk/mourning dove; overlay/understand; sit(-)in/stand out,standout; undergo/overcome; walk-on/run off,runoff; walkout/run(-)in; walk-up/run(-)down...and,

PSEUDO-SYNONYMS: windpower/air force; raindrop/waterfall; Central Time/Middle Ages; tall order/high command
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19 days ago Evin290 said:

cleave is contranymic. It can mean to adhere, and it can also mean to sever.

2 months ago frindley said:

I have come across three additional terms used in connection with this phenomenon:
contranym
antagonym
enantiodromic
and also
antanaclasis – rhetorical device that can make use of autoantonyms, although these two don't:
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." (Benjamin Franklin)
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." (Groucho Marx)

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