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Catachresis   Listen
noun
Catachresis  n.  (Rhet.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles". "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound."






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Words linked to "Catachresis" :   catachrestic, catachrestical



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