1. Provided with a frame
   "there were framed snapshots of family and friends on her desk"

1. Enclose in or as if in a frame
   "frame a picture"; "They framed in the new window";
   - frame in, border
    
2. (construction) assemble the structural frame of a building
   "They framed up the wooden structure of the house";
   - frame up
    
3. Formulate in a particular style or language
   "She framed her argument carefully";
   - cast, put, couch
    
4. Make up plans or basic details for
   "frame a policy";
   - compose, draw up
    
5. Make someone get in trouble by setting a trap or planting false or deliberately misleading evidence
   "The innocent man was framed by the police";
   - ensnare, entrap, set up [informal], fit up [Brit, informal], stitch up [Brit, informal]

Type of: articulate, build, close in, confine, construct, cozen [literary], deceive, delude, enclose, formulate, give voice, hold in, inclose, lead on, make, phrase, plan, shut in, word

Antonym: unframed

Encyclopedia: Framed