boxed inadjective [ after verb ]
uk/ˌbɒkst ˈɪn/us/ˌbɑːkst ˈɪn/If someone or something is boxed in, he, she, or it cannot move, because of other people or things that are too close:
I was boxed in, and had to wait for the driver of the other car to get back.
prevented from doing what you want to do:
He feels boxed in at work and wants greater freedom to develop his ideas.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Immobility
- be locked in sth
- budge
- catatonic
- firm
- glue
- glued to the spot idiom
- grind to a halt/standstill idiom
- hold
- jam
- jammed
- motionless
- move
- not move a muscle idiom
- rest
- rock-solid
- sedentary
- stagnant
- static
- transfix
- unwavering
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On the road: driving & operating road vehicles
Lack of freedom to act