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{
"form": "boxes in",
"tags": [
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"singular",
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},
{
"form": "boxing in",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "boxed in",
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"past"
]
},
{
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}
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}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"english": "often synonymous",
"word": "fence in"
}
],
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{
"ref": "1941 May, Voyageur, “The Clogher Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 195",
"text": "For running along the public roads the wheels and motion are completely boxed in; [...].",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To enclose by drawing a box around."
],
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"enclose",
"enclose"
],
[
"draw",
"draw"
],
[
"box",
"box"
],
[
"around",
"around"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To enclose by drawing a box around."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "enclose by drawing a box around",
"word": "piirtää ruutu ympärille (jonkun)"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "enclose by drawing a box around",
"word": "emboîter"
}
]
},
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 24:24 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04",
"text": "Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To trap or immobilize something, usually a vehicle, by placing obstacles, usually other vehicles, around it to obstruct its free movement."
],
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"trap",
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[
"immobilize",
"immobilize"
],
[
"vehicle",
"vehicle"
],
[
"placing",
"place"
],
[
"obstacle",
"obstacle"
],
[
"around",
"around"
],
[
"obstruct",
"obstruct"
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[
"free",
"free"
],
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"movement",
"movement"
]
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"(transitive) To trap or immobilize something, usually a vehicle, by placing obstacles, usually other vehicles, around it to obstruct its free movement."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
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"_dis1": "3 96 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "in a corner",
"sense": "immobilize something",
"word": "ahdistaa nurkkaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 96 1",
"code": "fi",
"english": "surround, encircle",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "immobilize something",
"word": "saartaa"
}
]
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{
"_dis": "9 24 66",
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"name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (in)",
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}
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"glosses": [
"To limit someone's freedom of thought, movement, expression, etc."
],
"id": "en-box_in-en-verb-IRCGKn8l",
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"limit",
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"freedom",
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"thought",
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"movement",
"movement"
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[
"expression",
"expression"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, figuratively) To limit someone's freedom of thought, movement, expression, etc."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
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"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "limit someone's freedom",
"word": "rajoittaa"
}
]
}
],
"word": "box in"
}
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"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs with particle (in)",
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"english": "often synonymous",
"word": "fence in"
}
],
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{
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"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
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"participle",
"present"
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{
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"participle",
"past"
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"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
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"ref": "1941 May, Voyageur, “The Clogher Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 195",
"text": "For running along the public roads the wheels and motion are completely boxed in; [...].",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To enclose by drawing a box around."
],
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"enclose",
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[
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"draw"
],
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"box",
"box"
],
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],
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"(transitive) To enclose by drawing a box around."
],
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"transitive"
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},
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"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
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"ref": "2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 24:24 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04",
"text": "Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To trap or immobilize something, usually a vehicle, by placing obstacles, usually other vehicles, around it to obstruct its free movement."
],
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[
"trap",
"trap"
],
[
"immobilize",
"immobilize"
],
[
"vehicle",
"vehicle"
],
[
"placing",
"place"
],
[
"obstacle",
"obstacle"
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"around",
"around"
],
[
"obstruct",
"obstruct"
],
[
"free",
"free"
],
[
"movement",
"movement"
]
],
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"(transitive) To trap or immobilize something, usually a vehicle, by placing obstacles, usually other vehicles, around it to obstruct its free movement."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To limit someone's freedom of thought, movement, expression, etc."
],
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[
"limit",
"limit"
],
[
"freedom",
"freedom"
],
[
"thought",
"thought"
],
[
"movement",
"movement"
],
[
"expression",
"expression"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, figuratively) To limit someone's freedom of thought, movement, expression, etc."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "enclose by drawing a box around",
"word": "piirtää ruutu ympärille (jonkun)"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "enclose by drawing a box around",
"word": "emboîter"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "in a corner",
"sense": "immobilize something",
"word": "ahdistaa nurkkaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "surround, encircle",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "immobilize something",
"word": "saartaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "limit someone's freedom",
"word": "rajoittaa"
}
],
"word": "box in"
}
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