box sb in
— phrasal verb with box uk/bɒks/us/bɑːks/verb
to prevent someone from doing what they want to do:
She did not want to send her son to a school where he would be boxed in by so many rules and regulations.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Limiting and restricting
- chain
- circumscribe
- clamp down on sth
- clampdown
- clip
- curtail
- damage limitation
- debilitate
- delimit
- delimitation
- hamstring
- hedge
- infringe
- muzzle
- non-proliferation
- qualification
- ration
- rationing
- restrain
- stabilizer
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