desynonymize
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]de- + synonymize
Verb
[edit]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, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Rest Fenner […], →OCLC:
- unconscious good sense working progressively to desynonymize those words originally of the same meaning
References
[edit]“desynonymize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.