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frame up

frame up verb: to erect the initial walls and roof of (a new building).

Verb

frame up (third-person singular simple present frames up, present participle framing up, simple past and past participle framed up)

  1. (transitive) To erect the initial walls and roof of (a new building).
    Synonyms:
    frame out
  2. (transitive) To arrange fraudulent evidence to falsely implicate (a person) of a crime.
    Synonyms:
    frame, put up, set up
  3. To prepare a shot by deciding what to include and exclude, what to use as background, etc.

Synonyms of frame up

Forms of frame up

third-person singular presentframes up
present participleframing up
past participleframed up
pastframed up

Words formed from frame up

Questions about frame up

What does frame up mean?
Frame up means to erect the initial walls and roof of (a new building).
What part of speech is frame up?
Frame up is a verb.
What is the past tense of frame up?
The past tense of frame up is framed up.

Words near frame up in the dictionary

  1. frame tables
  2. frame tale
  3. frame tales
  4. frame time
  5. frame times
  6. frame up
  7. frame-alignment recovery time
  8. frame-fuck
  9. frame-fucked
  10. frame-fucking
  11. frame-fucks

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