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hyperzeugma

The English word “hyperzeugma” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A rhetorical figure in which each phrase or clause has its own verb. The opposite of zeugma.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér) + ζεῦγμα (zeûgma, “yoke, bond”)

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