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boxnoun1 a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting thingsfilled a whole box with books bin, caddy, case, casket, chest, locker, trunk carton, cratefootlocker, sea chestcoffer, lockbox, safe, safe-deposit box, strongboxcoffincompartment, vaultcanteencaisson, hope chestminaudièrebandbox, hatbox, jewel box, snuffbox, tinderbox a boxlike container for holding a dead bodythe only way I'm ever leaving this hospital room is in a box an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and soundwould you switch on the box so that we can watch the news? a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapewith our new home still unfinished, and the buyers of our condo eager to move in, we were in a real box bind, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot(chiefly West), jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp difficulty, nodehot water, souppinch, plight, quandary, scrape, troubledeadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstillclutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait kettle of fish boxnoun2a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrumentthe vicious bully delivered a box to the child's ear bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, biff, blow, bop, buffet, bust, chop, clap, clip, clout, crack, cuff, dab, douse(British), fillip, hack, haymaker, hit, hook, knock, larrup(dialect), lash, lick, pelt, pick, plump, poke, pound, punch, rap, slam, slap, slug, smack, smash, sock, spank, stinger, stripe, stroke, swat, swipe, switch, thud, thump, thwack, wallop, welt, whack, wham, whop(also whap) counter, counterblow, counterpunch, counterstrokebody blow, hand, kick, knee, left, one-two, rabbit punch, right, right-hander, roundhouse, shiver, sidewinder, sucker punch, swing, uppercutcruncher, kayo, knockdown, knockout, KObastinado(or bastinade), battering, beating, bludgeoning, clobbering, cudgeling(or cudgelling), drubbing, hammering, lambasting, licking, pasting, pounding, pummeling(also pummelling), thrashingflogging, walloping, whip, whipping boxverbto deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous mannerhis mother threatened to box his ears if he didn't show a bit more respect bang, bash, bat, belt, biff, bludgeon, bob, bonk, bop, bust, clap, clip, clobber, clock, clout, crack, hammer, hit, knock, nail, paste, pound, punch, rap, slam, slap, slog, slug, smack, smite, sock, strike, swat, swipe, tag, thump, thwack, wallop, whack, whale, zap batter, beat, buffet, bung, chop, cuff, drub, lace, lambaste(or lambast), lick, mangle, maul, pelt, pepper, pommel, pummel, roughscuffbunt, flick, stroke, tapbump, butt, jab, jostle, kick, knee, poke, prod, push, shove, stampbowl (down or over), cream, deck, dump(slang), fell, floor, knock down, levelrabbit-punch, sucker punchcane, club, cudgel, flail, flog, lash, sap, slash, sledge, sledgehammer, spear, stab, switch, thrash, whipbean, brain, conk, skull hang one on before the 12th century |