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Catachresis

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Noun

catachresis

Definition: strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')

Definition: A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.

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