box
verb/bɒks/
/bɑːks/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they box | /bɒks/ /bɑːks/ |
| he / she / it boxes | /ˈbɒksɪz/ /ˈbɑːksɪz/ |
| past simple boxed | /bɒkst/ /bɑːkst/ |
| past participle boxed | /bɒkst/ /bɑːkst/ |
| -ing form boxing | /ˈbɒksɪŋ/ /ˈbɑːksɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] box (somebody) to fight somebody in the sport of boxing
- He boxed for Ireland in the Olympics.
- The newcomer boxed the champion for the full twelve rounds.
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- [transitive] box something (up) to put something in a box
- She boxed the decorations up and put them in the attic.
fight
put in container
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 10 late Old English, probably from late Latin buxis, from Latin pyxis ‘boxwood box’, from Greek puxos. noun senses 11 to 12 Old English, via Latin from Greek puxos.
Idioms
See box in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybox clever
- (British English, informal) to act in a clever way to get what you want, sometimes tricking somebody
- Suzie realized that she had to box clever. She had to let Adam think she trusted him.
box somebody’s ears
- (also give somebody a box on the ears)(old-fashioned) to hit somebody with your hand on the side of their head as a punishment
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