encierro

Meaning

encerrar

  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. (reflexive) to take over; occupy (a building)
  8. (reflexive) 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. (reflexive) to shy away

Opposite of
desencierro
Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
en‧cie‧rro
Pronounced as (IPA)
/enˈθjero/
Etymology

Deverbal from encerrar (“to lock up”).

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