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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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before   has been listed 10 times with 3 comments

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bent   has been listed 14 times with 3 comments

boring   has been listed 13 times with 3 comments

corner   has been listed 13 times with 2 comments

close   has been listed 15 times with 1 comment

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drift   has been listed 19 times with 1 comment

extend   has been listed 5 times with 1 comment

fare   has been listed 5 times with 1 comment

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fit   has been listed 16 times with 5 comments

fizzle   has been listed 16 times with 2 comments

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gate   has been listed 13 times with 2 comments

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hide   has been listed 13 times with 1 comment

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match   has been listed 10 times with 3 comments

nap   has been listed 20 times with 3 comments

part   has been listed 8 times with 2 comments

peak   has been listed 12 times with 1 comment

post   has been listed 14 times with 3 comments

quick   has been listed 14 times with 5 comments

radiator   has been listed 4 times with 1 comment

release   has been listed 12 times with 2 comments

retire   has been listed 5 times with 2 comments

ring   has been listed 25 times with 1 comment

row   has been listed 21 times with 2 comments

sack   has been listed 13 times with 3 comments

tackle   has been listed 6 times with 1 comment

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stem   has been listed 12 times with 1 comment

strike   has been listed 14 times with 4 comments

spoil   has been listed 9 times with 5 comments

drag   has been listed 16 times with 4 comments

resign   has been listed 9 times with 3 comments

fair   has been listed 27 times with 2 comments

baker   has been listed 7 times with 1 comment

moot   has been listed 61 times with 14 comments

cut   has been listed 23 times with 5 comments

crack   has been listed 30 times with 5 comments

doctor   has been listed 15 times with 4 comments

save   has been listed 17 times with 23 comments

refund   has been listed 3 times with 1 comment

waiter   has been listed 4 times with 1 comment

over   has been listed 12 times with 2 comments

ultimate   has been listed 11 times with 2 comments

garnish   has been listed 13 times with 1 comment

patronize   has been listed 12 times with 2 comments

execute   has been listed 9 times with 4 comments

exploit   has been listed 11 times with 1 comment

line   has been listed 24 times with 2 comments

mind   has been listed 33 times with 9 comments

awful   has been listed 17 times with 7 comments

bad   has been listed 28 times with 2 comments

unbending   has been listed 2 times with 2 comments

cavalier   has been listed 50 times with 4 comments

quiddity   has been listed 81 times with 4 comments

fix   has been listed 15 times with 1 comment

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trip   has been listed 13 times with 1 comment

bound   has been listed 10 times with 1 comment

shank   has been listed 19 times with 2 comments

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about 1 year ago Evin290 said:

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

about 1 year 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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