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

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Related Words:

mispronunciation collapse: incorrect pronunciation

misrendering collapse

torturing collapse

misreading collapse: misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading

squeezing collapse

misapprehension collapse

misusage collapse

spoonerism collapse: transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words

figure of speech collapse

misunderstanding collapse

misjudgment collapse

misconception collapse: an incorrect conception

malapropism collapse: the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

solecism collapse

simile collapse: a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

misconstruction collapse: an ungrammatical constituent

misapplication collapse: wrong use or application

metaphor collapse: a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

misuse collapse: improper or excessive use

twisting collapse

fluff collapse: a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines); any light downy material

perversion collapse: the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice"; an aberrant sexual practice that is preferred to normal intercourse; a curve that reverses the direction of something; "the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion"; "perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords"

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