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catachresis

DEFINITIONS OF: catachresis

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

Type of:
rhetorical device
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
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