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encerrar

/enseˈraɾ/ verb B1
  1. to lock up, to coop up
  2. to lock away, put away, to imprison, to nail (in a prison or mental hospital)
  3. to enclose, to confine, to immure
  4. to contain, to hold, to include, to encapsulate, to entail
  5. to stalemate
  6. to separate (between brackets, commas)
  7. to take over; occupy (a building) (reflexive)
  8. 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)
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Verb forms

Infinitive
encerrar
Gerund
encerrando
Past participle
encerrado
Present (yo)
encierro
Preterite (yo)
encerré

An irregular verb: some of its forms don’t follow the rules, so learn them by heart.

From the library

Encierra en el compás;
Rimas, p. 2 · C1
Esta frase graciosa de Quevedo, que parece una chuscada, encierra un fondo de verdad.
Recuerdos de mi vida: Mi infancia y juventud, p. 37 · C1
En el primero coincidíamos con la corriente de la vida, cargada de realidades virtuales que acaso no llegan nunca a actualizarse, pero que sentimos como infinitamente posibles; en el segundo estamos fuera de esta misma corriente, y aun fuera de nosotros, obligados a juzgar, a encerrar y distribuir las vivas aguas en los rígidos cangilones de las ideas ómnibus, a evaluar en moneda corriente lo más ajeno a toda mercadería.
Páginas escogidas, p. 2 · C1
Cuando llegó á la posada, echó de menos el gato que encerraba los veinte mil reales.
Spanish Tales for Beginners, p. 13 · C1

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