0 past simple and past participle of phrase
1 to express something with a particular choice of words:
The declaration was carefully/cleverly/tactfully, etc. phrased.
After three or four repetitions, children understood the desired pattern of responses and phrased their answers accordingly.
The discussions preceding "offering truth," the physical setting, and the way decisionmaking options are phrased can greatly affect how the patient chooses.
Therefore, the paraphraser is at risk of delivering the message in exactly the same form as it was phrased in the input.
Not only can information be sought via questions with varying syntax and terms, but appropriate answers too may be phrased differently.
In response, the state may require that these contracts be phrased in plain language.
He phrased his query in the context of a "hypothetical" case that raised ethical issues for him, and he asked me to respond.
Our "private," "original," and "independent" thoughts are always phrased in cultural lexicons of imagery, myth and story, gesture, language, or mathematical formalism.
The researcher allowed the children to talk uninhibitedly, making as few interruptions as possible and phrased questions openly.
