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Catachresis Moderate

Catachresis has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

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

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
rhetorical device
Rhyming Words
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