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OXYMORON
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Irregular inflected form: oxymora
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence')
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("oxymoron" is a kind of...):
figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
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