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say it: YOO-fuh-miz-uhm
euphemism is a noun meaning "an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh". It carries one recorded sense.
an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for euphemism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.