box sb/sth in
— phrasal verb with box uk/bɒks/us/bɑːks/verb
to move so close to someone or something that the person or thing cannot move away:
When I got back to my car, I found it had been boxed in by a lorry.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
- beleaguer
- beleaguered
- beset
- border
- circumscribe
- dunk
- fence sth off
- flood
- gather
- gift-wrap
- gift-wrapped
- girdle
- steep
- surround
- swallow
- wound 1
- wrap
- wrap (sb) up
- wrap sth around sb/sth
- wrapped
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