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Disannul

A prefix that agrees with itself instead of reversing

To annul is to bring to nothing. To disannul is — also to bring to nothing, only more so. The dis- here is not the one doing the work in disagree or disconnect; it is the intensifying dis-, doubling the verb down rather than turning it around. Which is why the word looks like it ought to cancel a cancellation and instead does the opposite. In use since 1485, still ambushing people.

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