Box
Box noun - A difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape.
Usage example: with our new home still unfinished, and the buyers of our condo eager to move in, we were in a real box
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Synonyms for Box
Fix is a synonym for box in state topic. In some cases you can use "Fix" instead a noun "Box", when it comes to topics like predicament, easy.
Nearby Word: boxed
Fix
Fix noun - A difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape.
Usage example: what a fix we're in!
Box is a synonym for fix in state topic. Sometimes you can use "Box" instead a noun "Fix", if it concerns topics such as predicament, easy, difficult or ticklish situation.
How words are described
| nice | nice box | nice fix |
| long | long box | long fix |
| particular | particular box | particular fix |
| current | current box | current fix |
| Other adjectives: single, simple, real, little, new, next. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Out-Gambitted: Foxxo pranks Pui Pui and Wuffle by asking them to fix his car (when they get there, it's a box on wheels).
Source: Web Comic / Wuffle - The Chekhov's Gun-ish electric box he has been tasked to fix proceeds to blow up.
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Peter Schibetta taunting the resident Ax-Crazy Scary Black Man Adebisi with racial slurs... while Adebisi's holding a box of rat poison... and finishing by telling Adebisi to go fix him lunch.
Source: Series / Oz
Cite this Source
Fix and Box. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/box/fix
Box & Fix. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/box/fix>.
Fix or Box. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/box/fix.
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