Kannada Meaning of catachresis

ಅನುಚಿತ ಉಪಯೋಗ

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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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ಅನುಚಿತ ಉಪಯೋಗ

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

ಉಪಮೆ,ಪರಿಭ್ರಮಣ,ಕೋಡ್ ಶಬ್ದ,ಸಂಜ್ಞೆ,ರೂಪಕ,ಮಿಶ್ರ ಉಪಮೆ,ಹೋಲಿಕೆ,ಸತ್ತ ರೂಪಕ,ಅಹಂಕಾರ,ಕ್ರ್ಯಾಂಕ್

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catacaustic => ಕ್ಯಾಟಕಾಸ್ಟಿಕ್, catacala => ಕ್ಯಾಟಕಲಾ, catabolize => ಕ್ಯಾಟಬೊಲೈಜ್, catabolism => ಕ್ಯಾಟಾಬಾಲಿಸಂ, catabolise => ಕ್ಯಾಟಾಬೊಲೈಜ್,