BOXED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boxed mean? 

• BOXED (adjective)
  The adjective BOXED has 2 senses:

1. enclosed in or set off by a border or box

2. enclosed in or as if in a box

  Familiarity information: BOXED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOXED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclosed in or set off by a border or box

Context example:

boxed announcements in the newspaper

Similar:

bordered (having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Enclosed in or as if in a box

Synonyms:

boxed; boxed-in; boxed in

Context example:

felt boxed in by the traffic

Similar:

enclosed (closed in or surrounded or included within)

 Context examples 

“Come,” cried the inspector, laughing; “it’s a very pretty diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do you give your casting vote to?”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What!” cried Julia: “go boxed up three in a postchaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The Captain never lost dignity, from having his ears boxed with the Latin Grammar.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Reed soon rallied her spirits: she shook me most soundly, she boxed both my ears, and then left me without a word.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You have boxed a good deal in your youth.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, if I'd made love to you in such fashion, you'd have boxed my ears.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

One thing I saw plainly: I must not simply retreat before him, or he would speedily hold me boxed into the bows, as a moment since he had so nearly boxed me in the stern.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We may then arrive in time; for if he escape not at night we shall come on him in daytime, boxed up and at our mercy; for he dare not be his true self, awake and visible, lest he be discovered.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She boxed the ears of the Silvas who crowded about the visitors on the tiny front porch, and in more than usual atrocious English tried to apologize for her appearance.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Upon which, Janet came running up the stairs as if the house were in flames, darted out on a little piece of green in front, and warned off two saddle-donkeys, lady-ridden, that had presumed to set hoof upon it; while my aunt, rushing out of the house, seized the bridle of a third animal laden with a bestriding child, turned him, led him forth from those sacred precincts, and boxed the ears of the unlucky urchin in attendance who had dared to profane that hallowed ground.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)