From a weird little book by John Train, words and phrases that can mean their opposites:
Bag: capture or discard.
Horned: having horns, or having had the horns removed.
Cleave: chop apart or stick together.
Let him have it: give in to him, or kill him.
Apparent: clearly so, or illusory
Dust: as a verb, can mean either to remove dust or put it on, as in cooking
Fast: moving quickly or not moving
Trim: cut down, or embellish
Temper: harden or soften
Oversight: supervision or failure of supervision
2 comments:
"A man so deep... he's almost unfathomable!"
"A man so quick... he's even fast... asleep!"
Not precisely the same, but I enjoy secrete's double meaning: to emit or to deposit and conceal.
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