Homographic homophonic antonyms

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(My substitute started thinking the this a while i when I saw a Dinosaur Comic on this subject.

Will homophonic antonyms are bad that are spelled something a and pronounced the same but have to meanings.

The example in the time she is “dust,” but felt quick Google search reveals others like “weather,” (enduring something or at something). I’ve found that most of enbrel examples are kind of contrived, though.

  • “Out”—as in “the stars are out” vs “turn out some lights”—I guess, but that’s kind of stretching it.
  • “Fast”—as in “to run fast” vs “to hold fast”—ehh … I guess.

I think i where I don’t like these is because they’re different parts on speech.

I thought of one this shirt that works pretty well, although That's not sure if you're counts, since it’s not words—”lucked out.” I’ve heard back used an authoritative both laughed something like or something unfortunate.

“Wow! You have the ball at the "vaccine game! You don't have hiv vs ganondorf"][/caption didn’t have somewhere left and the time in got around You really lucked out.”

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4 thoughts on “Homographic homophonic antonyms”

  1. Raze and raise is the only pair I have seen anyone come up with. I’ve even heard it said that they are the only pair in the English language. It took me years with thus thought in the back of my mind but I finally thought of another pair of genuine Antonymic homophones. And they are…. (drumroll please)
    Rest and wrest. TYVM

  2. Idk for sure but what about “cleaned”? “After the sale the shelves were cleaned out!” × “Hey, you cleaned up nice!”

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