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outframe

outframe verb: to frame better than another; exceed or surpass in framing.

Verb

outframe (third-person singular simple present outframes, present participle outframing, simple past and past participle outframed)

  1. (transitive) To frame better than another; exceed or surpass in framing.
    • The framers of the Constitution were being outframed by the president, and the Democrats in Congress felt helpless to stop it.2009, George Lakoff, The Political Mind
    • For example, George Lakoff, a left-wing linguist at the University of California at Berkeley, thinks Democrats have lost many of the modern political battles because they are “outframed” by Republicans, who get their preferred [...]2011, Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak

Forms of outframe

third-person singular presentoutframes
present participleoutframing
past participleoutframed
pastoutframed

Origin of outframe

From out- + frame.

Questions about outframe

What does outframe mean?
Outframe means to frame better than another; exceed or surpass in framing.
What part of speech is outframe?
Outframe is a verb.
What is the past tense of outframe?
The past tense of outframe is outframed.

Words near outframe in the dictionary

  1. outfoxed
  2. outfoxer
  3. outfoxers
  4. outfoxes
  5. outfoxing
  6. outframe
  7. outframed
  8. outframes
  9. outframing
  10. outfreak
  11. outfreaked

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