Zeugmatic
the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or on his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.
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a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although appropriate to only one of them or making a different sense with each, as in the sentence mr. pickwick took his hat and his leave (charles d-ckens)
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