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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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 v.0.48:

Catachresis \Cat`a*chre"sis\, n. [L. fr. Gr. ? misuse, fr. ? to misuse; kata` against + ? 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] Catachrestic
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

catachresis n 1: strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')