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outframe

verb

Etymology

From out- + frame.

  1. derived from *promo-✻ — “front, forward”
  2. inherited from *framjaną✻ — “to further, promote, perform”
  3. inherited from *frammjan✻
  4. inherited from framian
  5. inherited from framen
  6. prefixed as outframe — “out + frame”

Definitions

  1. To frame better than another

    To 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.
    • 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 [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for outframe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA