Topic: SPORT
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Sense: 1,4
| Date: | 1300-1400 |
| Origin: | Origin unknown. |
| Date: | 1400-1500 |
| Origin: | BOX1 |
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box2
1 [intransitive and transitive]DS to fight someone as a sport by hitting them with your closed hands inside big leather gloves
2 also box up [transitive]DTI to put things in boxes : 
Help me box up the Christmas tree lights.
Help me box up the Christmas tree lights.3 [transitive] to draw a box around something on a page
box somebody/something ↔ in
phrasal verb1 to surround someone or something so that they are unable to move freely : Someone had parked right behind them, boxing them in.
Someone had parked right behind them, boxing them in.2
feel boxed in
a) to feel that you cannot do what you want to do because a person or situation is limiting you : Married for only a year, Connie already felt boxed in.
Married for only a year, Connie already felt boxed in.b) to feel that you cannot move freely, because you are in a small space
box something ↔ off
phrasal verbTBC to separate a particular area from a larger one by putting walls around it : We're going to box off that corner to get extra storage space.
We're going to box off that corner to get extra storage space.