ZEUGMA

Zeugma

Zeugma and syllepsis are related figures of speech in which different parts of a sentence are joined together by one single phrase or word.

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zeugma

Noun

  1. The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one.
  2. Syllepsis.


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