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"Enjoin" is not a contranym. One either "enjoins to" or "enjoins from". Either way, "enjoin" simply means "instruct sternly".
My favorite contranym is the phrase "cleave fast". The verb and the adverb reverse as a team to say that the subject goes to one extreme or the other.
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