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Word: periphrase
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Meaning:
Noun:
- rhetoric The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
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Verb:
- intransitive To use circumlocution.
- transitive To express by periphrase or circumlocution.
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