A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal andmetaphorical sense at the same time.

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/topic/27742/syllepsisRSS for NodeMon, 15 Jun 2026 18:51:38 GMTWed, 22 Mar 2017 03:20:23 GMT60the use of a word in the same [grammatical] relation to two [adjacent] words in the context with one [literal] and the other metaphorical in sense

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