encher

From Old Galician-Portuguese encher (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin implēre. Compare Portuguese encher.

encher (first-person singular present encho, first-person singular preterite enchín, past participle enchido)
encher (first-person singular present encho, first-person singular preterite enchim or enchi, past participle enchido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to fill

   Antonyms: baleirar, baldeirar

   • 2019 May 17, “Milleiros de galegos maniféstanse a prol da nosa lingua”, in G24‎:

     As rúas de varias vilas e cidades enchíanse de xente que se manifestaba a prol da lingua.

     The streets of several towns and cities filled with people who protested in support of the language.

2. to sate

   Synonyms: fartar, saciar

3. to flood (a river)
4. to flood (the tide)
5. to bore, tire

   Synonym: fartar

• enchedoira
• enchedoiro
• enchenta
• enchente

• cheo

• “encher”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “encher” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “encher”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “encher”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “encher”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “encher”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “encher”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese encher, from Latin implēre. Compare Galician encher.

• Hyphenation: en‧cher

encher (first-person singular present encho, first-person singular preterite enchi, past participle enchido)

1. to fill, fill up
   • 1943, André Luiz, Francisco Cândido Xavier, Nosso Lar:

     Logo após, suave música encheu o recinto de cariciosas melodias.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to inflate (e.g. a balloon or a tyre)

• preencher

• Macanese: inchí, enchê

• cheio

• “encher” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913