Editing Contronym (section)

=== English ===
{{Wiktionary category|category=English contranyms|type=contronyms in English}}
* ''Original'' can mean "authentic, traditional", or "novel, never done before" 
* ''Cleave'' can mean "to cling" or "to split apart".<ref name=":2"/><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57032/25-words-are-their-own-opposites |title=25 Words That Are Their Own Opposites |website=mentalfloss.com |first=Judith |last=Herman |date=15 June 2018 |access-date=2022-09-10}}</ref>
* ''Clip'' can mean "attach" or "cut off".<ref name=":2" /> 
* ''Dust'' can mean "to remove dust" (cleaning a house) or "to add dust" (e.g., to dust a cake with powdered sugar).<ref name=":2"/><ref name=":0" /> This contradiction features in the children's book ''[[Amelia Bedelia (book)|Amelia Bedelia]]''.<ref name="book">[https://lccn.loc.gov/63014367 "Amelia Bedelia"]. LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2016-02-18.</ref>
* ''Fast'' can mean "without moving; fixed in place", (holding fast, also as in "steadfast"), or "moving quickly".<ref name=":2"/><ref name=":0" />
* ''[[Obbligato]]'' in music traditionally means a passage is "obligatory" but has also been used to mean "optional".<ref>"Obbligato" in ''Lectionary of Music'', [[Nicolas Slonimsky]]. McGraw-Hill {{ISBN|0-07-058222-X}}</ref><ref>"Obbligato" in ''Collins Music Encyclopedia'', Westrup & Harrison: Collins, London, 1959</ref>
* ''Overlook'' can mean "to make an accidental omission or error" or "to engage in close scrutiny or control".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-01 |title=Definition of OVERLOOK |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overlook |access-date=2023-09-12 |website=www.merriam-webster.com |language=en}}</ref>
* ''Oversight'' can mean "accidental omission or error" or "close scrutiny or control".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-07 |title=Definition of OVERSIGHT |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oversight |access-date=2023-09-12 |website=www.merriam-webster.com |language=en}}</ref>
* ''Peruse'' can mean to "consider with attention and in detail" or "look over or through in a casual or cursory manner".<ref>{{cite web |title=Definition of PERUSE |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peruse |website=www.merriam-webster.com |access-date=28 June 2020 |language=en |quote=to ... EFFECT}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Janus Words |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-own-opposites |website=www.merriam-webster.com |access-date=28 June 2020 |language=en |quote=to ... EFFECT}}</ref>
* ''Ravel'' can mean "to separate" (e.g., threads in cloth) or "to entangle".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Canadian Oxford dictionary |date=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195418163 |page=1283 |edition=2nd |quote=entangle...disentangle, unravel}}</ref>
* ''Sanction'' can mean "approve" or "penalize".
* ''Table'' can mean "to discuss a topic at a meeting" (''British English'') or "to postpone discussion of a topic" (''American English''). Canadian English uses both meanings of the word.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Barber |editor1-first=Katherine |title=Canadian Oxford Dictionary |date=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press Canada |location=Don Mills, Ontario |isbn=9780195418163 |page=1580 |edition=Second}}</ref>
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