Word
Catachresis
How many syllables?
4 Syllables
How it's divided?
cat-a-chre-sis
Definition
- n. - 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.
- noun - 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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