- 1[usually passive] frame something to put or make a frame or border around something The photograph had been framed. Her blonde hair framed her face. He stood there, head back, framed against the blue sky.
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produce false evidence - 2[usually passive] frame somebody (for something) to produce false evidence against an innocent person so that people think he or she is guilty He says he was framed.
- 3frame something (formal) to create and develop something such as a plan, a system, or a set of rules express something
- 4frame something to express something in a particular way You'll have to be careful how you frame the question.
frame
verbNAmE//freɪm//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they frame he / she / it frames
past simple framed
-ing form framing
adjective (often in compounds) a framed photographSee frame in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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