reframe

verb

re·​frame (ˌ)rē-ˈfrām 

reframed; reframing

transitive verb

: to frame (something) again and often in a different way

Tom, a seasoned renovator, … reframed the crooked doorways …

—Gillian Barth

The more lines of discoloration there are near the frame edges (from where the mounting paper has been exposed to light), the more times the silhouette has probably been reframed.

—Carolyn B. Noyes

… deftly reframes the debate, asserting that the war was never about W.M.D.s but about transforming the political dynamic of the region …

—Yoni Brenner

… cognitive-behavioral therapy, in which patients slowly expose themselves to the places and circumstances that frighten them and reframe the catastrophic thinking that torments them.

—Jeffrey Kluger

All failures are reframed as "good tries."

—Jon Krause

Examples of reframe in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That realization became the seed of her writing on slow dating, which reframes love as an unfolding rather than a conquest. —Essence, 24 Sep. 2025

Google has also continued to draw on the AI explosion to reframe the case. —Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025

Once in a job interview, nerves can often sabotage performance, but Brooks suggested reframing anxiety as excitement. —Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025

Sometimes the end almost reframes and summons everything that was going on at the beginning. —Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1592, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for reframe

• acclaim
• aflame
• airframe
• ballgame
• became
• declaim
• defame
• disclaim
• doorframe
• exclaim
• inflame
• mainframe