Box
Box noun - A covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things.
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Distress and box are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Distress" instead a noun "Box".
Nearby Word: boxed
Distress
Distress noun - A state of great suffering of body or mind.
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Jason convinces the ruler that the box is, in fact, announcing to the world the ruler's glory, when it's actually sending a primitive distress call using a universally-known code.
Source: Literature / Deathworld -
Distress Call: One doomed citizen of Kaihoro managed to make call for help from a phone box, which can be heard in the opening.
Source: Film / Bad Taste -
Damsel in Distress: Happens twice to Juli; first when she's trapped in a box slowly filling up with water, and again when she's surrounded by Haunted and needs Sebastian's help to escape.
Source: Video Game / The Evil Within
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