box in

Verb

Meaning

enclose or confine as if in a box

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

box up benet contain compass corral coop limit moderate pen bottle jail restrict trap blockade surround
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Antonyms

free allow release benefit assist encourage
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Hypernyms

confine enclose hold in

Examples

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics. Neil Kinnock

I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?". Muhammad Ali

I box in yellow Gox box socks. Dr. Seuss

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it. Ken Kesey

Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - "this is just the way it is" - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver. Yanni

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in. Susie Bright

Close letter words and terms

box hockey box house box huckleberry box in a church for donations box in the form of a book box in which tools are kept