English dictionary
catachresis
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Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
Source: WordNet 3.0
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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". <i>Shak.</i> "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." <i>Young.</i>
Source: webster1913