Meaning

3 senses
  1. (not comparable)Packed into a box or boxes.

    The books are boxed, ready for shipping.

    enclosed in or as if in a box

  2. (not comparable)In bridge and other card games if the cards in a pack are reversed face-up and face-down then the pack is said to be boxed.

  3. (not comparable)Of domesticated animals, discrete flocks or herds having become mixed, either accidentally or deliberately. (Aust. OED)

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • enclosed in or as if in a box:boxed-inboxed in

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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