Dictionary
encerrar
Meaning
- to lock up, to coop up
- to lock away, put away, to imprison, to nail (in a prison or mental hospital)
- to enclose, to confine, to immure
- to contain, to hold, to include, to encapsulate, to entail
- to stalemate
- to separate (between brackets, commas)
- to take over; occupy (a building)
- to shut oneself up, to withdraw, to shut away oneself, to shut off oneself, to lock up or lock down oneself, to close off oneself
- to shy away
Hyphenated as
en‧ce‧rrar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/enθeˈraɾ/
Etymology
From en- + cerrar.
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