Contronyms
'Oversight' watches and misses
Oversight means careful supervision and also a careless mistake, two meanings that sit uncomfortably close in law.
Oversight means careful supervision and also a careless mistake, two meanings that sit uncomfortably close in law.

A contronym is its own opposite. Cleave descends from two different Old English verbs that collided into one modern spelling.

One sense comes from making something holy and lawful, the other from enforcing that law. Context alone tells you which.

You dust a cake with sugar and dust a shelf to remove dust. The verb faces both directions.