Box and Cellar

Box

Box noun - A covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things.

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Cellar and box are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cellar" instead a noun "Box".

Nearby Word: boxed

Cellar noun - A room or set of rooms below the surface of the ground.

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Box and cellar are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Box" instead a noun "Cellar".

Nearby Words: cellaret, cellared, cellarage, cellarer, cellaring

old	old box	old cellar
full	full box	full cellar
special	special box	special cellar
complete	complete box	complete cellar
Other adjectives: small, large, big, tiny, black, titular, literal, nearby, locked.

The Girl in the Box has the eponymous girl kidnapped and locked in a dark cellar for no apparent reason.

Source: Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere
Seen in The Cabin in the Woods, and exaggerated: the five teenagers go into the cellar, and each one starts fiddling with a different mysterious object (necklace, music box, puzzle sphere) — and only when one girl reads aloud from a book does she "Activate" it.

Source: Chance Activation
Ouida Sebestyen's The Girl in the Box is a story of a girl who is abducted and left in a dark cellar, with only a typewriter to entertain her, and regular rations of stale food and water to keep her alive.

Source: No Ending

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