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  Word: Catachresis

  ID	Word	Wordtype	Definition
  24045	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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