encerrar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- gird verb To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
- immure verb To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
- impound verb To seize and hold something officially, often as a penalty or for legal reasons.
- seal noun A marine mammal with flippers that lives partly on land and partly in the sea.
Senses
encerrar is used for these senses in English:
- coop up To confine in a restricted place or situation
- gird (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
- immure (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
- immure (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
- impound (transitive) To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
- lock down To blockade and lock (e.g. a building or campus) so as to prevent ingress or egress; to make the occupants (of an area) stay locked indoors for their safety.
- lock in (transitive) To secure (someone or something) in a locked enclosure.
- lock in (transitive, colloquial) To prevent (someone or something) from escaping, deteriorating, or switching to an alternative.
gird — full definition
- verb To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
- verb To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
- verb To prepare (oneself) for an action.
- verb (of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk of capsizing.
immure — full definition
- verb To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
- verb To put or bury within a wall.
- verb To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.