What is another word for "catachresis"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "catachresis": abuse, adumbrate, adumbration, allegorical, allegorize, allegory, allude, allusion, allusive, anagoge, anagogical, analogy, apologue, application, apply, association, away, bad, catachrestical, colloquial, colloquialism, coloring, construction, cross, cross-reading, detort, distort, employ, enallage, exaggeration, explain, express, fable, false, falsification, falsify, figurative, figure, forth, garble.

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