Traditional Chinese Meaning of catachresis

濫用語

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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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濫用語

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

類比,迂迴表達 ,密碼,委婉語,比喻,混合比喻,比喻,隱喻,自負,曲柄

No antonyms found.

catacaustic => 展蹤線面, catacala => 夜蛾, catabolize => 分解, catabolism => 分解代謝, catabolise => 分解代謝,