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Definition of catachresis

The word catachresis uses 11 letters: a, a, c, c, e, h, i, r, s, s, t

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Meanings 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.

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