1 [intransitive and transitive]DS
to fight someone as a sport by hitting them with your closed hands inside big leather gloves
2 also box up [transitive]DTI
to put things in boxes: ➔ boxed
Help me box up the Christmas tree lights.
to draw a box around something on a page
to hit someone on the side of their head
box somebody/something ↔ inphrasal verb
to surround someone or something so that they are unable to move freely:
Someone had parked right behind them, boxing them in.
to feel that you cannot do what you want to do because a person or situation is limiting you:
Married for only a year, Connie already felt boxed in.
to feel that you cannot move freely, because you are in a small space
box something ↔ offphrasal verb
to separate a particular area from a larger one by putting walls around it:
We're going to box off that corner to get extra storage space.