Noun: boxing
| Singular | boxing |
| Plural | boxings |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2024 May 24, Timothy Garton Ash, “Ukraine can still recover with bolder western support – but right now it’s on the ropes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2024:]
Nouns inflected like boxing
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Middle English box
3. English box
4. Proto-Germanic *-ungō
5. Old English -ung
6. Middle English -ynge
7. English -ing
8. English boxing
9. From box (“to punch”) + -ing.
Verbs referencing "boxing"
Icelandic Nouns
box, Spanish Nouns
box, Russian Nouns
бокс, Latvian Nouns
bokss.