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renfermer — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • encompass verb To include a wide range of things as part of a single whole.

Senses

renfermer is used for these senses in English:

  • bottle up (idiomatic) To keep suppressed and hidden.
  • encompass (transitive) To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.
  • encompass (transitive) To include completely; to describe fully or comprehensively.
  • shut up (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.
  • shut up (ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.

encompass — full definition

  1. verb To include a wide range of things as part of a single whole.
  2. verb To surround or enclose something completely.

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