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Zeugma

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Noun

1. zeugma

use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one

Example Sentences:
'Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Zeugma

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noun
a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although appropriate to only one of them or making a different sense with each, as in the sentence Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave (Charles Dickens)

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Zeugma

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noun
1. 
syllepsis
2. 
a figure of speech in which a single word, usually a verb or adjective, is syntactically related to two or more words, though having a different sense in relation to each (Ex.: The room was not light, but his fingers were)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Zeugma

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n.
1. Syllepsis.
2. A construction in which one word or phrase is understood to fill a parallel syntactic role in two or more clauses or phrases, as with the verb was in She was upstairs, and her husband downstairs.

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