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Noun: catachresis  `ka-tu'kree-sis
  1. Strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as 'blatant' to mean 'flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: 'blind mouths')

See also: catachrestic

Type of: rhetorical device

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