Unframe

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

To take apart or destroy; to unmake..

Definitions by Sense

1. To take apart or destroy; to unmake.
2. To remove from a frame
3. To make HTML code that appears within a frameset accessible to browsers that do not support framesets.
4. To show the innocence of one who has been framed.
5. To free one's viewpoint of its ideological or cultural frame of reference.

Example Sentences

[…] or in your converse with others, may be, ungodly persons, whereby casting off the sense of this, we often cast the honour of our profession to the ground, and by our sinful neglects or compliances, unframe our selves;

A lifeless lump, unfashioned, and unframed, / Of jarring seeds

At their approach his heart alters its motion; his blood stops from its common course; his sinews are all relaxed, which entirely unframes his reason, and makes him a stranger to his own inclination, which, struggling with his wavering resolution, occasions a debate between hope and fear;

All day Sunday to frame and unframe penitent speeches.

“We have only to unframe the picture,” he said. “ I remember that on the edge of the canvas there is a streak of paint, gray paint that went beyond the edge of the stretcher.”

More than six or seven sketches were made of this subject before I did the finished drawing, and even now I find myself tempted to unframe it to go on working at it.

Do not unframe mechanically damaged paintings. Only unframe if glass front protection is splintered.

To prevent this from happening, it's important to unframe pages for external links or internal links to frameset documents. The easiest way to unframe pages is to use either the _blank or _top special targets discussed earlier.

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• unframes
• unframing
• unframed

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