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reframing

reframing is the present participle and gerund 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.

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Noun

reframing (countable and uncountable, plural reframings)

  1. Framing anew or again.

Forms of reframing

pluralreframings

Words formed from reframing

Phrases with reframing

Questions about reframing

What does reframing mean?
Reframing means framing anew or again.
What is reframing the present participle and gerund of?
Reframing is the present participle and gerund of reframe.
What part of speech is reframing?
Reframing is a noun.
What is the plural of reframing?
The plural of reframing is reframings.

Words near reframing in the dictionary

  1. reframe
  2. reframed
  3. reframer
  4. reframers
  5. reframes
  6. reframing
  7. reframing time
  8. reframing times
  9. reframings
  10. refranation
  11. refranations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reframing (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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