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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024zeug•ma (zo̅o̅g′mə),USA pronunciation n. [Gram.,]Rhet.- Oceanography, Rhetoric, Grammarthe use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold. Cf. syllepsis.
- Greek zeûgma a yoking, equivalent. to zeug(nýnai) to yoke1 + -ma noun, nominal suffix of result
- 1515–25;
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