Associations to the word «Periphrase»

Wiktionary

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

Wise words

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph Conrad