Definition of catachresis
English to English noun - strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
source: WordNet 3.0 - 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.
source: Webster 1913
Visual Synonyms 
Nearby Word
|
|
|