Catachresis (Crossword clue)

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• Incorrect usage of a word
• A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another
• Catachresis (from Greek κατάχρησις, `abuse`)
• A harsh metaphor involving the use of a word beyond its strict sphere
• The inexact use of a similar word in place of the proper one to create an unlikely metaphor
• Catachresis is a figure in rhetoric, when a word is too far wrested from its true signification
• (Grk. 'misuse') A completely impossible figure of speech or an implied metaphor that results from co
• Strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant` to mean `flagrant`) or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor

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