Desynonymize

Related to Desynonymize: synonymize

De`syn`on´y`mize


v. t.1.To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; - applied to words which have been employed as synonyms.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Is it not a little surprising that Coleridge, who coined "dyspathy," did not also coin "empathy" and go on to desynonymize it from "sympathy"?
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