All frame up synonyms
frame up
F f verb frame up
- contrive β If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.
- wangle β to bring about, accomplish, or obtain by scheming or underhand methods: to wangle an invitation.
- finagle β to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- wire β a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- diddle β If someone diddles you, they take money from you dishonestly or unfairly.
- angle β An angle is the difference in direction between two lines or surfaces. Angles are measured in degrees.
- cogitate β If you are cogitating, you are thinking deeply about something.
- promote β to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- intrigue β to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- traverse β to pass or move over, along, or through.
- color β the sensation resulting from stimulation of the retina of the eye by light waves of certain lengths
- twist β to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- prevaricate β to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- lie β Jonas, 1880β1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
- doctor β a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- gloss β an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
- fib β a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
- change β If there is a change in something, it becomes different.
- garble β to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions.
- palter β to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
- warp β OS/2
- contort β If someone's face or body contorts or is contorted, it moves into an unnatural and unattractive shape or position.
- cook β When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.
- adulterate β If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it.
- deny β When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
- belie β If one thing belies another, it hides the true situation and so creates a false idea or image of someone or something.
- salt β See under Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
- con β Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- misquote β a quotation that is incorrect.
- maneuver β a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- connive β If one person connives with another to do something, they secretly try to achieve something which will benefit both of them.
- plan β a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- scheme β a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; project.
noun frame up
- compact β Compact things are small or take up very little space. You use this word when you think this is a good quality.
- terms β a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- setup β Surveying. station (def 14a). a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station. a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
- organization β the act or process of organizing.
- layout β an arrangement or plan: We objected to the layout of the house.
- frame-up β a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
- dash β If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
- pretension β the laying of a claim to something.
- affectation β If you say that someone's attitude or behaviour is an affectation, you disapprove of the fact that it is not genuine or natural, but is intended to impress other people.
- fanfare β a flourish or short air played on trumpets or the like.
- splurge β to indulge oneself in some luxury or pleasure, especially a costly one: They splurged on a trip to Europe.
- revelation β the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- arrangement β Arrangements are plans and preparations which you make so that something will happen or be possible.
- spread β to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- splash β to wet or soil by dashing masses or particles of water, mud, or the like; spatter: Don't splash her dress!
- blaze β When a fire blazes, it burns strongly and brightly.
- pomp β stately or splendid display; splendor; magnificence.