BOX UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does box up mean? 

• BOX UP (verb)
  The verb BOX UP has 1 sense:

1. enclose or confine as if in a box

  Familiarity information: BOX UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOX UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose or confine as if in a box

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

box in; box up

Hypernyms (to "box up" is one way to...):

confine; enclose; hold in (close in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

When the box was on land, before sunrise or after sunset, he came out from his box, met Skinsky and instructed him what to do as to arranging the carriage of the box up some river.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)