box up

mettre en boîte, emballer

Mettre des objets dans des boîtes, souvent pour les ranger ou déménager.

En anglais simple : To put things into boxes, often for storage or moving.

• Please box up these toys.
• We boxed up our clothes before moving.
• Have you boxed the dishes up yet?

Comment l'utiliser : box up something / box something up (We boxed our books up yesterday.); box it/them up (Please box them up for the move.)

Synonymes : pack, box

Contraires : unpack

Expressions courantes : box up something, box something up

enfermer, confiner

Garder quelqu’un dans un petit espace où il ne peut pas bouger librement.

En anglais simple : To keep someone in a small space where they cannot move freely.

• They boxed the prisoners up in small cells.
• We were boxed up indoors throughout the storm.
• She hated being boxed up in that narrow room.

Comment l'utiliser : be boxed up in somewhere (We were boxed up in a tiny cabin.)

Synonymes : confine, shut in

Contraires : release

Expressions courantes : box someone up, box up prisoners

mélanger les dés

Mélanger les dés pour permettre aux joueurs de choisir ceux qu’ils utiliseront.

En anglais simple : To mix dice so players can choose which ones to use.

• The dealer boxed up the dice.
• Box the dice up before we choose.
• They boxed up several dice for the gamblers to select.

Comment l'utiliser : box up something / box something up (The dealer boxed the dice up before the players chose.)

Synonymes : mix, shuffle

Expressions courantes : box up dice, box the dice up