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Originally Posted by Daithi
Ok, here is a puzzle in the same vein.
A homonym is a word that is spelled the same and pronounced the same but has different meanings, and an antonym is a word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
Can you name five homonyms that are their own antonyms? For example, "cleave" can mean either "to separate" or "to hold on tight".
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trim - trim the fat from a steak (take away) and trim a tree (add to the tree)
This may be slang, but:
can - can fresh fruit (put in jars to preserve/save) and can - to fire/get rid of someone
I think one more:
stem - to stem the flow of water (to stop) and stem - the kid's arrest record stems from lack of supervision (start from)