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
Nearby Word: boxed
Hole
Hole noun - A difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape.
Usage example: Bill dug himself into a hole by promising to be in two places at the same time
Box is a synonym for hole in predicament topic. Sometimes you can use "Box" instead a noun "Hole", if it concerns topics such as easy.
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When John graphically rips it from his chest, his wounds disappear, and the box is revealed to be a cereal box with a hole containing a dead rat.
Source: Comic Book / Hellblazer -
The "jail" Strong Bad is put in is a cardboard box with a hole cut into it, and Strong Mad frees him by lifting the box and throwing it away.
Source: Cardboard Prison -
Alice grinding against Jean was edited , Paul with his face against a stripper's crotch was covered up with a large censor box (making it look dirtier than it was), and a shot of Paul's mouth seen through a glory hole was also covered up with a box.
Source: Censor Box
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Hole and Box. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/box/hole
Box & Hole. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/box/hole>.
Hole or Box. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/box/hole.
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