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Synonyms and Antonyms of boxes
- filled a whole box with books
- the only way I'm ever leaving this hospital room is in a box
biers, caskets, coffins, palls, sarcophagi (also sarcophaguses)
charnels (also charnel houses), crypts, sepulchres (or sepulchers), sepultures, tombs, vaults
- would you switch on the box so that we can watch the news?
boob tubes, idiot boxes, televisions, tellys (also tellies) [chiefly British], tubes, TVs
- with our new home still unfinished, and the buyers of our condo eager to move in, we were in a real box
binds, catch-22's (or catch-22s), corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, impasses, jackpots [chiefly West], jams, mires, pickles, predicaments, quagmires, rabbit holes, rattraps, spots, sticky wickets, swamps
Synonyms and Antonyms of boxes
- the vicious bully delivered a box to the child's ear
bangs, bashes, bats, beats, belts, biffs, blows, bops, buffets, busts, chops, claps, clips, clouts, cracks, cuffs, dabs, douses [British], fillips, hacks, haymakers, hits, hooks, knocks, larrups [dialect], lashes, licks, pelts, picks, plumps, pokes, pounds, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slugs, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, stingers, stripes, strokes, swats, swipes, switches, thuds, thumps, thwacks, wallops, welts, whacks, whams, whops (also whaps)
counters, counterblows (or counter-blows), counterpunches, counterstrokes (or counter-strokes)
body blows, hands, kicks, knees, lefts, one-twos, rabbit punches, rights, right-handers, roundhouses, shivers, sidewinders, sucker punches, swings, uppercuts
crunchers, kayos, knockdowns, knockouts, KOs
bastinadoes (or bastinades), batterings, beatings, drubbings, lickings, pastings, thrashings
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