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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

outframe en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + frame.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To frame better than another; exceed or surpass in framing.
    • 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:
    • 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:

Forms

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outframed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outframed Tense=Past lexicographic
outframes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outframing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic