boxed
SayBOKSTUS/bɑkst/UK/bɒkst/
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- 2Past tense and past participle of box. Use it for boxing that already happened.
She boxed the old clothes and carried them to the attic.
He boxed for his college team last year.
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- 3Of a deck of cards, mixed so that some cards face up and others face down in the same pack.
Like a stack of papers where some pages got flipped the wrong way.
The cards were boxed, so some faced up and some faced down.
He fixed the boxed deck before dealing the next hand.
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- 4Of farm animals, mixed together after separate herds or flocks join into one group.
Like two groups of kids from different classes all mixed up in one room.
The two flocks got boxed when a gate was left open overnight.
Once the herds were boxed, it took days to sort them again.
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boxed is a form of box
box, verb: To fight someone with your fists as a sport, wearing padded gloves. Full entry
- Spelling
- box → boxed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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