verb (used with object), framed, framing.
22.
to form or make, as by fitting and uniting parts together; construct.
23.
to contrive, devise, or compose, as a plan, law, or poem:
to frame a new constitution.
24.
to conceive or imagine, as an idea.
25.
Informal. to incriminate (an innocent person) through the use of false evidence, information, etc.
26.
to provide with or put into a frame, as a picture.
27.
to give utterance to:
Astonished, I attempted to frame adequate words of protest.
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to form or seem to form (speech) with the lips, as if enunciating carefully.