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Boxing

//ˈbɒksɪŋ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists to head and torso; the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout. uncountable

    "So Ukraine is on the ropes. Using that boxing metaphor, one immediately thinks of the new world heavyweight champion, the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, who was seemingly down and out under the ferocious assault of the giant Tyson Fury, but then came back to win on points at the end of a brutal 12 rounds."

  2. 2
    Material used for making boxes or casing.
  3. 3
    the enclosure of something in a package or box wordnet
  4. 4
    Casing.
  5. 5
    fighting with the fists wordnet
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  1. 6
    Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of box form-of, gerund, participle, present
  2. 2
    present participle and gerund of box form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From box (“to punch”) + -ing.

Etymology 2

From box (“to punch”) + -ing.

Etymology 3

From box + -ing.

Etymology 4

From box + -ing.

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