encerrar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From en- +‎ cerrar. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: en‧cer‧rar === Verb === encerrar (first-person singular present encerro, first-person singular preterite encerrei, past participle encerrado) to contain to complete, finish (computing) to shut down ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “encerrar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “encerrar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === From en- +‎ cerrar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /enθeˈraɾ/ [ẽn̟.θeˈraɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) IPA(key): /enseˈraɾ/ [ẽn.seˈraɾ] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: en‧ce‧rrar === Verb === encerrar (first-person singular present encierro, first-person singular preterite encerré, past participle encerrado) to lock up, to coop up Synonym: recluir to lock away, put away, to imprison, to nail (in a prison or mental hospital) to enclose, to confine, to immure to contain, to hold, to include, to encapsulate, to entail (games) to stalemate (typography) to separate (between brackets, commas) (reflexive) to take over; occupy (a building) (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 (reflexive) to shy away ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== encerar === Further reading === “encerrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025