We should have a rating scale for polysemy, from "often confused for another sense" to "no possibility of confusion."

Complaints about usage to dictionaries are usually based on the premise that words can only mean one single thing.

Which is not a thing. https://twitter.com/adicloud/status/1275779214835421185

Words are so often judged and assessed by the company they keep. Nobody mistakes "(computer) mouse" for "(furry) mouse" or "(sitting) stool" for "(excrement) stool)."

But the context can be razor-thin: after all, a "bathroom stool" is almost certainly a thing you stand on.

Modifiers can be tricky, but nobody complains that 'exquisite' can be placed before both 'pain' and 'taste'.

And about 'taste': figurative uses don't usually cause problems with concrete uses. "A taste of the dessert" and "Fine taste in clothes" co-exist happily.

But after an encounter with the ambiguous and problematic 'biweekly' or the 'flammable'/'inflammable' conundrum, the knee-jerk reaction of so many people is the same:

"A word can mean ONE THING and ONE THING only!"

At this point, they should be asked to prove it.

Verbs?

Take 'treat,' for example:

"They treated me badly."

"We need to treat that wound immediately."

"Let me treat you to lunch."

We get zero complaints about this one word having one etymology and yet active, unambiguous definitions that are universes apart.