Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To destroy the frame of; take apart; hence, to make useless; destroy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To take apart, or destroy the frame of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To take apart or destroy the
frame of.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Connie, unframe these two skirts quick as you can!”
Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker
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All day Sunday to frame and unframe penitent speeches.
Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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His wisdom and infinite knowledge foresees and debates all inconveniences antecedently to every act of volition; and so there can be no new emergent inconvenience that may unframe his resolutions and cause a change.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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A SHOT IN THE DARK (1964) The second of Blake Edwards's "Pink Panther" films, with Peter Sellers as the hapless Inspector Clouseau trying to unframe an innocent blonde (Elke Sommer).
Reader's Digest 2009
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