encerrar

From en- +‎ cerrar.

• Hyphenation: en‧cer‧rar

encerrar (first-person singular present encerro, first-person singular preterite encerrei, past participle encerrado)

1. to contain
2. to complete, finish
3. (computing) to shut down

From en- +‎ cerrar.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /enθeˈraɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /enseˈraɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: en‧ce‧rrar

encerrar (first-person singular present encierro, first-person singular preterite encerré, past participle encerrado)

1. to lock up, to coop up

   Synonym: recluir

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. (games) to stalemate
6. (typography) 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

• encerar

• “encerrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10