box

/bɒks/ verb

Translation

SPORT [I, T] › to do the sport of boxing

boks yapmak

183

CONTAINER [T] ( also box up) › to put something in a box

kutulamak, kutuya koymak

We boxed up the old books.1310

box sb/sth in phrasal verb

› to move so close to someone or something that they cannot move

kutulamak

[often passive] When I returned I found that my car had been boxed in.1862

(Definition of box verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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