outframe

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verb

To frame better than another; exceed or surpass in framing.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

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

present singular third person outframes · participle present outframing · participle past outframed · past outframed

  1. transitiveTo 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
    1 more example

    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

Origin

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APA

outframe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outframe

MLA

“outframe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outframe. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outframe,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outframe.

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