unframe

Verb

unframe (third-person singular simple present unframes, present participle unframing, simple past and past participle unframed)

1. To take apart or destroy; to unmake.
   • […] or in your converse with others, may be, ungodly persons, whereby casting off the sense of this, we often cast the honour of our profession to the ground, and by our sinful neglects or compliances, unframe our selves;1677, Alexander Carmichael, Believers Mortification of Sin by the Spirit, page 28
   • A lifeless lump, unfashioned, and unframed, / Of jarring seeds1717, John Dryden [et al.], “Book 1”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
2. To remove from a frame
   • “We have only to unframe the picture,” he said. “ I remember that on the edge of the canvas there is a streak of paint, gray paint that went beyond the edge of the stretcher.”1940, Max White, Tiger Tiger, page 335
   • More than six or seven sketches were made of this subject before I did the finished drawing, and even now I find myself tempted to unframe it to go on working at it.1983, The Artist - Volume 98, page 31
3. To make HTML code that appears within a frameset accessible to browsers that do not support framesets.
   • To prevent this from happening, it's important to unframe pages for external links or internal links to frameset documents. The easiest way to unframe pages is to use either the _blank or _top special targets discussed earlier.2000, Anamary Ehlen, HTML Complete, page 290
4. To show the innocence of one who has been framed.
   • I decided to unframe the frame-up, to obtain Miss Holiday's acquittal, and to clearly document Mr. Levy's status and function in the case.1965, J.W. Enrlich, A Life in my Hands, page 148
5. To free one's viewpoint of its ideological or cultural frame of reference.
   • One way to achieve this is to go beyond canonical representations of Miinter, to unframe her from the location within the modern confines of modernism, and thus to unframe her from victimhood.1994, Women Studies Abstracts - Volume 23, Issues 1-4, page 65
   • To unframe hierarchies of excellence and of universal value that privilege one strand of cultural production while committing every other mode to cultural oblivion, as claims the not fully articulated accusation in October, does not mean that one is launching an undifferentiated universalism in...2006, Joanne Morra, Marquard Smith, Visual Culture: What is visual culture studies?, page 230