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box someone up

to confine someone in a small area. Please don't box me up in that little office. The boss boxed up Fred in a tiny office. Why the president boxes himself up in such a little office is beyond me.

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That little wish so naively uttered seemed to him the prettiest bit of childishness; he had never heard anything like it before; and he had wrapped the box up in a great many covers, that he might see Hetty unwrapping it with growing curiosity, till at last her eyes flashed back their new delight into his. Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context			bounce up and down bound bound and determined bound for bound hand and foot bound to do bound up in bound up with bout bow bow and scrape bow before bow down bow out bow to bow to demands bow to the porcelain altar bowel bowl bowl over bowl up box box clever box ears box in box up boxed boxed in boxed on the table boy Boy howdy! boy oh boy Boys will be boys brace brace oneself for brace up brag about brain brains out brainwash with brake branch branch off branch out brass brass monkey weather brass off brave brave out bread bread always falls on the buttered side			Box tail box the compass box the compass box the compass box the compass box the compass Box thorn box top Box Top Offer Box Top Offers Box Tops for Education box tortoise Box tree Box tree Box tree Box tree Box tree box trees box trees box trees box trees box trees box turtle box turtle Box turtles Box turtles box union box union box union box union box up Box Waste Assay System box white oak Box wine Box wine box wrench box wrench box wrench box, light box-and-strip construction Box-and-whisker diagram Box-and-whisker plot box-and-whisker plots Box-Behnken design box-coking test Box-combing Box-cutter Box-cutter knife Box-cutter knives Box-cutterknife Box-cutters Box-elder Box-end wrench Box-end wrench Box-end wrench box-fresh box-girder bridge box-head window Box-Horn Array Antenna Box-iron

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