Arabic Meaning of catachresis

كناية

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Definitions and Meaning of catachresis in English

Wordnet

catachresis (n)

strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')

Webster

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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كناية

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

تناظر,الإحاطة ,رمز التشفير,تعبير ملطف,مجاز,مزيج استعاري,تشبيه,استعارة ميتة,غرور,كرنك

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catacaustic => الكاتاكوستك, catacala => القطط, catabolize => تحلل, catabolism => نكث التحلل, catabolise => استقلاب,