C2

encerrar

Meaning

  1. to lock up, to coop up
  2. to lock away, put away, to imprison, to nail (in a prison or mental hospital)
  3. to enclose, to confine, to immure
  4. to contain, to hold, to include, to encapsulate, to entail
  5. to stalemate
  6. to separate (between brackets, commas)
  7. to take over; occupy (a building)
  8. 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
  9. to shy away

Hyphenated as
en‧ce‧rrar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/enθeˈraɾ/
Etymology

From en- + cerrar.

Spanish

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