Contronym ("to dust" can mean "to remove dust" or "to add dust")

[silverchase@sh.itjust.works]

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[sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

How do you make a redirection in another language? In French, le page should be https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Énantiosémie.

[ephera@lemmy.ml]

In German, we have "umfahren" (to drive around) and "umfahren" (to run somebody over).

[allnewtypeface@leminal.space]

They get away with it because in any case there’s normally only one obvious dust-related thing to do.

[canadian_cabinet@lemmy.ca]

I've got a pretty tunny one in Spanish: jamás. Its definitions are:

1. never
2. (No longer used) always
3. (No longer used) sometimes

[teft@lemmy.world]

Huesped is like that, too.

It means both host and guest.

[silverchase@sh.itjust.works]

But what if I want to dust a bookshelf so it looks older and unkempt?