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Boxed in   /bɑkst ɪn/   Listen
Boxed in

adjective
1.
Enclosed in or as if in a box.  Synonyms: boxed, boxed-in.  "A confining boxed-in space" , "Felt boxed in by the traffic"






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"Boxed in" Quotes from Famous Books



... in mid-Tiber. While I stood admiring the measure of impression was made to overflow by the gratuitous grace of a white-cowled monk who came trudging up the road that wound to the gate of the town. Narni stood, in its own presented felicity, on a hill a good space away, boxed in behind its perfect grey wall, and the monk, to oblige me, crept slowly along and disappeared within the aperture. Everything was distinct in the clear air, and the view exactly as like the bit of background ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James



Words linked to "Boxed in" :   enclosed, boxed-in



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