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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
boxed
adj
  1. enclosed in or set off by a border or box; "boxed sections of the report"; "boxed announcements in the newspaper"
  2. enclosed in or as if in a box; "boxed cigars"; "a confining boxed-in space"; "felt boxed in by the traffic"
    Synonym(s): boxed, boxed-in(a), boxed in(p)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Box \Box\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boxed} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Boxing}.]
      1. To inclose in a box.
  
      2. To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.
  
      3. (Arch.) To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to
            bring to a required form.
  
      {To box a tree}, to make an incision or hole in a tree for
            the purpose of procuring the sap.
  
      {To box off}, to divide into tight compartments.
  
      {To box up}.
            (a) To put into a box in order to save; as, he had boxed
                  up twelve score pounds.
            (b) To confine; as, to be boxed up in narrow quarters.
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