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catachresis

Definition of catachresis
n. - 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. ²

The word "catachresis" uses 11 letters: A A C C E H I R S S T.

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