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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -catachresis-, *catachresis*, catachresi
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English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
catachresisn. ศัพท์ที่ใช้ผิด, การใช้คำผิด, See also: catachrestic adj. ดู catachresis catachrestical adj. ดูcatachresis -pl . catachreses

WordNet (3.0)
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')

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Catachresis

n. [ L. fr. Gr. &unr_; misuse, fr. &unr_; to misuse; kata` against + &unr_; to use. ] (Rhet.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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