Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Spell Check
I was typing an assessment at work, and Microsoft Word did not recognize the word disempower. Instead it suggested the word disembowel. Well that would have radically altered the meaning of the sentence, so I politely clicked the Ignore button. Then I got to thinking... There really is no use for the antonym of disembowel. Has anyone ever "emboweled" another living being? There must be other words like this.
# posted by PapaGoose @ 2:54 PM 
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There are, but I can't think of them just now. But, how about words like "cleave", which means two antonyms (to attach and to separate)?
You could go through other "dis-" words. "Dismember" is one I can think of right away. I don't think there's a verb form of "member." (Huh-huh. He said "member")
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