Scrabble?! CATACHRESE
Is catachrese valid for Scrabble? Words With Friends? Lexulous? WordFeud? Other games?Definitions of CATACHRESE in various dictionaries:
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 figures 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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