reframe
See also: re-frame
English
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editreframe (third-person singular simple present reframes, present participle reframing, simple past and past participle reframed)
- (transitive) To frame again.
- The woman in the shop was reframing a painting.
- (transitive) To redescribe, from a different perspective; to relabel.
- The military reframed tedium as duty.
Noun
editreframe (plural reframes)
- An instance of reframing.
- 2014, Arthur J. Clark, Empathy in Counseling and Psychotherapy:
- A counselor's reframe of the term “protecting” to “enabling” suggests a different function with respect to the individual's behavior.