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English noun: catachresis | |||
| 1. | catachresis (communication) strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths') | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rhetorical device | ||
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