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catachresis
Noun
strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
derivation
catachrestic
catachrestical
hypernym
rhetorical device
catachresis vs catachrestic
catachresis vs catachrestical
catachresis vs rhetorical device
Other words that start with:
“C”
,
“CA”
,
“CAT”
,
“CATA”
or end with:
“S”
,
“IS”
,
“SIS”
,
“ESIS”
.
Other nouns that start with:
“C”
,
“CA”
,
“CAT”
,
“CATA”
or end with:
“S”
,
“IS”
,
“SIS”
,
“ESIS”
.
Words unscrambled from / built with letters:
“CATACHRESIS”
.
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