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1. (n.) catachresis
misuse or strained use of words, as in a mixed metaphor, occurring either in error or for rhetorical effect.
Etymology: (1580–90; < L < Gk: a misuse =katachrê(sthai) to misuse (kata-cata - +chrêsthai to use, need) +-sis -sis ))
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1. (noun) catachresis
strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
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1. (noun) catachresis
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". Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young
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