"desanitize" -- a reversal?

[Laurence Horn]

On Oct 28, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>> "Desanitize" is not in the OED, but my expectation is that it would
>> mean "to make unsanitary; to undisinfect".
>
> I certainly hope so!
>
> This, despite the fact that I myself  have _unloosened_ many neckties,
> shoelaces, and such that needed *loosening*, in unmonitored moments,
> and felt none the worse for it.
>
And any day now the contents of many a freezer within that Cone of Uncertainty (that's becoming less uncertain by the hour) will begin to unthaw.

LH

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