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Definitions of periphrase:
  • noun:   (rhetoric) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
  • verb:   (transitive) To express by periphrase or circumlocution.
  • verb:   (intransitive) To use circumlocution.

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