frame
verb [T often passive] (MAKE GUILTY) /freɪm/ informalDefinition
› to make a person seem to be guilty of a crime when they are not, by producing facts or information that are not true: He claimed he'd been framed by the police.Blaming and accusing
(Definition of frame verb (MAKE GUILTY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- accusatory adjective
- accusing adjective
- allege verb
- ascribe sth to sth phrasal verb
- attribution noun
- blame noun
- blame verb
- condemnation noun
- contributory negligence noun
- face the music idiom
- haul sb up phrasal verb
- have sb to thank (for sth) idiom
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