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Word | Catachresis |
Portuguese Meaning | catacrese, catachresis |
`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'') / A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification / the use of a word in a way that is not correct, for example, the use of mitigate for militate., | |
Usage | ⇒ English and American studies, especially, seemed to be focusing on narrative and drama in ways that excluded from study bizarre and interesting phenomena such as obsessive rhythm and catachresis . |
Synonyms | misuse, abuse, metaphor, misusage, allegory, barbarism, gloss, malapropism, misapplication, misapprehension, misconstruction, misunderstanding, simile, solecism, adumbration, allusion, apologue, application, bull, distortion, |
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