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Box Up

Definition: Box Up

Box Up

Verb

1. Enclose or confine as if in a box.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Box Up

Synonym: box in (v). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Box Up

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Restraint	Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Box Up

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Kenny's family is so poor, they had to put their cardboard box up for a second mortgage. (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions: Box Up

Expressions using "box up": To box up ♦ to box up a stove. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Box Up

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
box up vip	11
back box up x	5
backing box up x	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Box Up

Language		Translations for "box up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		afspaerre en varmluftovn (boxing up a stove, to box a stove, to box up a stove). (various references)

Dutch		droogoven afsluiten (boxing up a stove, to box a stove, to box up a stove). (various references)

German		einsperren (bolt in, caging, close up, confine, confinement, corral, impound, imprison, jail, lock away, lock in, lock up, Nick, pen, pen in, pen up, put away, put inside, shut in, shut up, to corral, to lock up), einpacken (pack, pack in, pack up, package, parcel, put in, to pack, to wrap up, up, wrap, wrap up). (various references)

Greek		διαφύλαξη θερμότητας ενός αναγεννητή (boxing up a stove, to box a stove, to box up a stove). (various references)

Hungarian		összezsúfol (crowd, to box up, to crowd, to huddle things, to huddle things together, to huddle things up, to huddle together). (various references)

Pig Latin		oxbay upay

Portuguese		fecho da estufa de vento (boxing up a stove, to box a stove, to box up a stove). (various references)

Spanish		encerrar (carry, comprehend, confine, crate, encase, enclose, enshrine, ground, hem in, immure, inclose, include, lock in, lock up, pen, pen in, pen up, shut, shut away, shut down, shut in, shut up). (various references)

Thai		เก็บใส่กล่อง, ทำให้สับสน (blind, maze, mix up, muddle about / around, obfuscate), ปิ�"�"้วยไม้, ปิ�"ขังไว้ในสถานที่เล็กๆ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Box Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-o-p-u-x"
	-2 letters: bop, box, pox, pub, upo.
	-3 letters: bo, op, ox, up, xu.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography

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