Catachresis
Catachresis , noun
[Latin from Greek {not transcribed} misuse, from {not transcribed} to misuse; kata` against + {not transcribed} to use.]
(Rhetoric) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, “To take arms against a sea of troubles”. Shak. “Her voice was but the shadow of a sound.” Young.