Box
Box verb - To deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner.
Show all Definitions
Synonyms for Box
Overcome and box are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Overcome" instead a verb "Box".
Nearby Word: boxed
Overcome
Both words in one sentence
-
The TARDIS, upon taking a human body, feels that humans — and the Doctor — are bigger on the inside, and she's able to overcome the force which has taken control of her Police Box self because he's so much smaller on the inside.
Source: Bigger on the Inside - A whole string of companion loss, Downer Endings and problems simply too big for him to overcome soon makes it very explicit that he's just a troubled and very lonely old man, stuck in a box he can't control and with nowhere to go.
Source: Internal Deconstruction -
The plots of several episodes (Bubblestand, Snowball Effect, Club Spongebob, The Camping Episode, Idiot Box, etc) begin when Squidward is so overcome with frustrated curiosity that he cannot bring himself to keep his nose out of their antics.
Source: Nosy Neighbor
Cite this Source
Overcome and Box. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/box/overcome
Box & Overcome. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/box/overcome>.
Overcome or Box. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/box/overcome.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "box" and "overcome" have occurred on timeline