Meaning and Translation of Catachresis in Urdu Script and Roman Urdu with Definition, Wikipedia Reference,
| catachresis | Noun | تِحريف لَفظي | |
| catachresis | کَشِيدہ اِستعمال | ||
| catachresis | غَلط اِستعمال |
1. strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as blatant' to mean flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: blind mouths') |
Catachresis (from Greek κατάχρησις, "abuse"), originally meaning a semantic misuse or error—e.g., using "militate" for "mitigate", "chronic" for "severe", "anachronism" for "anomaly", "alibi" for "excuse", etc.—is also the name given to many different types of figure of speech in which a word or phrase is being applied in a way that significantly departs from conventional (or traditional) usage. |
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