"box up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: boxes up [present, singular, third-person], boxing up [participle, present], boxed up [participle, past], boxed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} box up (third-person singular simple present boxes up, present participle boxing up, simple past and past participle boxed up)
  1. (transitive) To pack into boxes. Tags: transitive Synonyms (pack into boxes): box
    Sense id: en-box_up-en-verb-EsXygUlG Disambiguation of 'pack into boxes': 97 2 2
  2. (transitive) To confine. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-box_up-en-verb-Z4ePNZgl Categories (other): English terms with collocations
  3. (transitive, gambling) To shuffle (dice) so that the gamblers can choose from among them. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Gambling
    Sense id: en-box_up-en-verb-ujYovoKK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 37 54 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 15 23 62 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 16 69 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 16 74 Topics: gambling, games

Inflected forms

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    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “pack into boxes”",
      "word": "unbox"
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  ],
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    {
      "form": "boxing up",
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    {
      "form": "boxed up",
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        "To pack into boxes."
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        "(transitive) To pack into boxes."
      ],
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          "text": "to be boxed up in narrow quarters",
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          "ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 160:",
          "text": "“What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”",
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        "To confine."
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        "(transitive) To confine."
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            "Recreation",
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        {
          "ref": "1948, Thomas Louis Stix, \"Say it Ain't So, Joe.\", page 243:",
          "text": "The book gets behind the money, the mechanic picks up the crap stick and starts boxing up the dice.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, page 275:",
          "text": "He made no attempt to rip the die back out again, but simply left it in the game and when the dice were boxed up it went into the bowl and was lost […]",
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        }
      ],
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        "To shuffle (dice) so that the gamblers can choose from among them."
      ],
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      ],
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        "(transitive, gambling) To shuffle (dice) so that the gamblers can choose from among them."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ],
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        "gambling",
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      ]
    }
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        "To pack into boxes."
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        "(transitive) To pack into boxes."
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        "To confine."
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          "confine"
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        "(transitive) To confine."
      ],
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          "text": "The book gets behind the money, the mechanic picks up the crap stick and starts boxing up the dice.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, page 275:",
          "text": "He made no attempt to rip the die back out again, but simply left it in the game and when the dice were boxed up it went into the bowl and was lost […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To shuffle (dice) so that the gamblers can choose from among them."
      ],
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          "shuffle",
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        [
          "dice",
          "dice"
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        "(transitive, gambling) To shuffle (dice) so that the gamblers can choose from among them."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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        "gambling",
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      "sense": "pack into boxes",
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    }
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}

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