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Description
Mind Map by CharlotteLedward, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by CharlotteLedward
about 11 years ago
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Ways in which meaning shift
- Analogy
- Using an old word in a new or similar situation
- Dashboard
- Using an old word in a new or similar situation
- Metaphor
- Noticing likenesses with existing objects
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- Noticing likenesses with existing objects
- Amelioration
- Words improve in their meaning
- Lady
- Words improve in their meaning
- Degeneration
- Words deteriorate in their meaning
- Mistress
- Words deteriorate in their meaning
- Hyperbole
- Words become weaker in meaning because we tend to exaggerate
- Thunderstruck
- Words become weaker in meaning because we tend to exaggerate
- Broadening
- A word requiring an extra layer of meaning
- Green
- A word requiring an extra layer of meaning
- Narrowing
- One specialised use or meaning
becomes dominant
- Undertaker
- One specialised use or meaning
becomes dominant
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