[responsivevoice] catachresis [/responsivevoice] [ kat-uh-kree-sis ]
The word of the day is ‘catachresis.’
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Misuse
2. Barbarism
3. Strained or paradoxical use of words either in error or deliberately
4. Metaphor
1. Hindi – Galat istemaal
2. Spanish -Catacresis
3. French -Catachrèse
4. Mandarin – Tuōfà
1. The hyperbole and catachresis are so nearly related to a bull, that I shall dwell upon them with pleasure.
2. Life is attributed to plants, only by a species of metaphor or catachresis.
3. And yet, after a vast deal of such like catachresis, the orthodoxy of plagiarism remains still in dispute.
4. No expression so terse and yet so striking could dispense with the classicism and the catachresis of “stoically.”
5. In this sense, the proverb is current by misuse, or a catachresis at least of both the words, Fortune and Fools
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
corruption, exploitation, harm, maltreatment, mistreatment, prostitution, squandering, waste, barbarism, desecration, dissipation, ill-treatment, injury, malapropism, misapplication, perversion, profanation, solecism, abusage, cruel treatment, misemployment, misusage, rough handling, atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, inhumanity, coarseness, corruption, impropriety, localism, malapropism, misuse, provincialism, vulgarism, vernacularism, etc.
praise, kindness, niceness
Quotation:
His catachresis method to repudiate her sentiments made her ears go blind. She is now unable to see the voice of heartbeats of someone who wants to be with her. She is now unable to hear the feelings of his, who now wants to be only hers.
Shrawanidas
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