desynonymize
English
Etymology
de- + synonymize
Verb
desynonymize (third-person singular simple present desynonymizes, present participle desynonymizing, simple past and past participle desynonymized)
- To deprive of synonymous character; to cause no longer to be synonyms.
- 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Rest Fenner […], →OCLC:
- unconscious good sense working progressively to desynonymize those words originally of the same meaning
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References
desynonymize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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