Box and Cage

Box

Box verb - To deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner.

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Cage and box are semantically related in chamber topic. In some cases you can use "Cage" instead the word "Box" as a noun or a verb, when it comes to topics like packing case, armature.

Nearby Word: boxed

Cage

Cage verb - To close or shut in by or as if by barriers.

Usage example: caged the rabbit at night so she wouldn't wake everyone up

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Synonyms for Cage

Box and cage are semantically related in chamber topic. Sometimes you can use "Box" instead the word "Cage" as a noun or a verb, if it concerns topics such as packing case, armature.

Nearby Words: cagey, caged, caging

Mutual synonyms

Related pairs

How words are described

full	full box	full cage
nice	nice box	nice cage
safe	safe box	safe cage
special	special box	special cage
Other adjectives: similar, complete, original, single, empty, small, actual, entire, large, big, huge, wooden, little, tiny, broken, yellow, next, last, literal, giant, red, electric.

Common collocations

enemy

box enemy

cage enemy

Both words in one sentence

MacGyvering: Stroud turns a glass bottle into a water dish, an apple box into a bird cage and is even able to MacGyver up new cures for diseases.

Source: Film / Birdman of Alcatraz
Taken Up to Eleven in the slow-motion flashback, which reveals that during the bump she took the cage, swapped the ferret for a box of Pop Tarts, applied lipstick, gave a passionate kiss to a nearby policeman, returned the cage to the officer, and then apologized for the bump.

Source: Percussive Pickpocket
The episode where they see if the cereal box itself really is more nutritious than the sugary cereal inside was supposed to be a mouse test, one cage of mice getting cereal and one getting cardboard pellets.

Source: Missing Episode / Live-Action TV