Defenition of the word catachresis

• Defenition of the word catachresis

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

Hypernyms for the word catachresis

• • rhetorical device

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