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