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Also fun is the “de” prefix which can mean either removal or its opposite, intensification: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/de- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/d

by pavlov 6y ago

Also fun is the “de” prefix which can mean either removal or its opposite, intensification: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/de- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/de- Hence “to defraud” doesn’t mean removing fraud.

hanche 6y ago
Not to mention “inflammable”, which means the same as “flammable”. Because the former is so easily misunderstood – and has been – warning labels now use the latter.