created a border or structure around something, or falsely blamed someone for a crime they didn't commit.
From Old English 'framian' meaning to construct or build. Originally it just meant making a wooden frame for buildings. Over time it expanded to mean surrounding anything, then metaphorically to setting someone up as guilty.
The word 'frame' comes from the same root as 'framework'—but when someone is 'framed' for a crime, we're using the older sense of 'constructing' evidence around them, like building walls of false proof!
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