Contronyms

 50 CONTRONYMS 

Contronyms (also called auto-antonyms or Janus words) — these are words that have two opposite meanings depending on the context.

 

1. Bolt = To secure (e.g. bolt the door) or to run away quickly

2. Dust = To remove dust or  to add a fine powder

3. Trim = To decorate or to cut off excess

4. Sanction = To approve or to impose a penalty

5. Oversight = Careful supervision or a mistake or omission

5. Weather = To withstand (e.g. a storm) or to wear away

6. Seed = To plant seeds or to remove seeds

7. Screen = To show/display or to hide/protect

8. Bound = Heading to a destination or restrained or tied up

9. Clip = To attach or to cut off

10. Cleave = To split apart or to cling tightly

11. Fast = Moving quickly or stuck or fixed tightly

12. Trimmed = Added decoration or removed part of something

13. Buckle = To fasten or to collapse or bend

14. Execute = To carry out or to kill

15. Finished = Completed or ruined or destroyed

16. Hold up = To support or to delay or rob

17. Rent = To lease out or to lease in

18. Rock= To move gently or to shake violently

19. Strike = To hit or to miss (as in baseball)

20. Trip = A journey or to stumble or fall

21. Wear = To endure or to deteriorate

22. Wind up = To start something or to finish something

23. Resign = To quit a job or to accept something reluctantly

24. Consult = To give advice or to ask for advice

25.Help = To assist or to hinder (in older or sarcastic usage)

26. Out = Visible, revealed or Hidden, extinguished

27. Model = To imitateor to serve as an original

28. Peer = An equal or to look closely

29. Row = A line or a noisy fight

30. Trip = A stumble or fall or a vacation or journey

31. Weathered = Worn by time ot to survived a difficulty

32. Overlook = To supervise or to fail to notice

33. Pop = To explode or to put something quickly

34. Stone = To throw stones at or  to remove stones from (a fruit)

35. Strike = To stop working (as in labor) or  to attack

36. Screen= To project/show or to shield or conceal

37. Bill = A statement of charges or to advertise/promote

38. Fire = To discharge a weapon or to dismiss from a job

39. Apology = A regretful statement or a defense or justification

40. Custom = A common practice or a specially made item

41. Go off = To explode/start suddenly or to become rotten or inactive

42. Out of= Without or Because of (e.g. “out of love”)

43. Peruse= To examine carefully or to skim or glance through

44. Refrain = To hold back or a repeated line in music/poetry

45. Rock = Steady and strong or Shaky or troubled (e.g. “rocked by scandal”)

46. Screen = To show on a screen or to block or filter out

47. Trim = Add (decoration) or Remove (excess parts)

48. Left = Went away or Stayed behind

49. Let =  To allow or to hinder (archaic usage)

50. Finished = Completed or Destroyed, done for

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