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re-frame

re-frame is the alternative spelling of reframe.

Meaning of reframe

Verb

reframe (third-person singular simple present reframes, present participle reframing, simple past and past participle reframed)

  1. (transitive) To mount in a frame again.
    • The woman in the shop was reframing a painting.
  2. (transitive) To redescribe, from a different perspective; to portray or construe anew, from a different analytic viewpoint or via a different metaphor; (sometimes euphemistically, merely) to relabel.
    • Near-synonym: reconstrue
    Synonyms:
    reconstrue
  3. (transitive) To change the angle and perspective of (video footage captured beforehand), as by a 360-degree camera.

See all 4 meanings of reframe

Forms of re-frame

third-person singular presentre-frames
present participlere-framing
past participlere-framed
pastre-framed

Questions about re-frame

What is re-frame the alternative spelling of?
Re-frame is the alternative spelling of reframe.

Words near re-frame in the dictionary

  1. re-formation
  2. re-formations
  3. re-formed
  4. re-forming
  5. re-forms
  6. re-frame
  7. re-framed
  8. re-frames
  9. re-framing
  10. re-fuse
  11. re-fused

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-frame (page history and authors); reframe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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