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    There are words like cleave which have two opposite meanings. What is the word for these words?

    Question #52633. Asked by philsgirl. (Nov 23 04 10:34 PM)


    peasypod

    Autoantonyms.

    There are heaps of examples here:

    http://www.fun-with-words.com/nym_autoantonyms.html

    Nov 23 04, 11:41 PM
    ranan

    Antagonyms
    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/antagonym.html

    Nov 23 04, 11:52 PM


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