desynonymize

English

Etymology

de- +‎ synonymize

Verb

desynonymize (third-person singular simple present desynonymizes, present participle desynonymizing, simple past and past participle desynonymized)

1. 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

“desynonymize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.