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Catachreses
- noun - strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
Catachresis
- noun - strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
Cataclysmal
- adjective - severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"
Cataclysmic
- adjective - severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"
Catacoustic
- - That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics.
Catadromous
- adjective - migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn
Catafalques
- noun - a decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral
Catalectics
- noun - (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot
Catalepsies
- noun - a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli
Cataleptics
- noun - a person suffering from catalepsy