Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To erect the initial walls and roof of (a new building).

  2. (transitive)To arrange fraudulent evidence to falsely implicate (a person) of a crime.

  3. To prepare a shot by deciding what to include and exclude, what to use as background, etc.

More definitions
  • construct by fitting or uniting parts together

Examples

1 sentences
  1. This will be framed and hung up on the wall.

    deDas wird eingerahmt und an die Wand gehängt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Forms

frames up, framing up, framed up, framed up
Base formframe up · to frame up
3rd person singularframes up
Present participleframing up
Past simpleframed up
Past participleframed up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyframe up
he, she, itframes up

Past simpleLesson

all personsframed up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave framed up
he, she, ithas framed up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill frame up

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • construct by fitting or uniting parts together:frame

Word family

1 related words
Derivedframeup

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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