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Definition of: zeugma
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g′mə) noun
A rhetorical figure in which an adjective is made to modify, or a verb to govern, two nouns, while applying properly only to one: She was remembered but they forgotten. Compare SYLLEPSIS. [<NL <Gk., a yoking <zeugnymi yoke]
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