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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Catachresis \Cat`a*chre"sis\, n. [L. fr Gr ? misuse, fr ? to misuse; kata` against + ? to use.] (Rhet.) 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: catachresis n : 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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