Box
Box verb - To deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner.
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Synonyms for Box
Imprison and box are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Imprison" instead a verb "Box".
Nearby Word: boxed
Imprison
Common collocations
| humans | box humans | imprison humans |
Both words in one sentence
- He even goes as far as to smash the one thing that served to imprison her: the music box.
Source: Multiple Endings -
Pandora, who started this by giving her box to Superman; thinking he can open it and re-imprison the Seven Deadly Sins.
Source: Comic Book / Trinity War -
Artifact of Doom: Pandora's Box contained the Seven Deadly Sins and can re-imprison them if someone with the strongest or darkest heart opens it.
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