recluir

v.

1 to shut or lock away, to imprison.

2 to shut in, to lock in, to imprison, to lock up.

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recluir

Conjugation model [HUIR], like {{link=huir}}huir

► verbo transitivo

1 (encerrar) to shut in

2 (en cárcel) to imprison, intern

3 (en manicomio) to confine

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verb

to confine

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1.

VT (=encerrar) to shut away; (Jur) (=encarcelar) to imprison

2.

See:

recluirse

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1.

verbo transitivo (en prisión) to imprison; (en hospital psiquiátrico), to intern (frml)

2.

recluirse v pron to shut oneself away

desde la muerte de su mujer se ha recluido — since the death of his wife he has been a recluse/lived as a recluse

se recluía en su cuarto para escribir — she would shut herself away in her room to write

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= intern, seclude, hold + prisoner.

Ex. The Red Cross then established and ran a library for the about 500 asylum seekers who were interned on the ship awaiting police interviewing.

Ex. Can't you seclude yourself and do nothing but work on this topic for the week?.

Ex. Tom Sutherland, a professor at the American University of Beirut, was kidnapped in 1985 and held prisoner for six and a half years, for much of the time shackled to his prisoner Terry Anderson.

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* dado a recluirse = reclusive.

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1.

verbo transitivo (en prisión) to imprison; (en hospital psiquiátrico), to intern (frml)

2.

recluirse v pron to shut oneself away

desde la muerte de su mujer se ha recluido — since the death of his wife he has been a recluse/lived as a recluse

se recluía en su cuarto para escribir — she would shut herself away in her room to write

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= intern, seclude, hold + prisoner.

Ex: The Red Cross then established and ran a library for the about 500 asylum seekers who were interned on the ship awaiting police interviewing.

Ex: Can't you seclude yourself and do nothing but work on this topic for the week?.

Ex: Tom Sutherland, a professor at the American University of Beirut, was kidnapped in 1985 and held prisoner for six and a half years, for much of the time shackled to his prisoner Terry Anderson.

* dado a recluirse = reclusive.

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recluir [I20 ]

vt

(en una prisión) to imprison

fue recluido en un psiquiátrico he was shut away in a psychiatric hospital, he was confined to o interned in a psychiatric hospital (frml)

la enfermedad lo ha tenido recluido durante casi un año he has been confined to the house for almost a year because of the illness

■ recluirse

v pron

desde la muerte de su mujer se había recluido/había vivido recluido since the death of his wife he had been a recluse/he had lived as a recluse

una casa donde suele recluirse para escribir a house where he shuts himself away to write

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recluir (conjugate recluir) verbo transitivo (en prisión) to imprison;
(en hospital psiquiátrico), to intern (frml)
recluir verbo transitivo
1 to shut away, confine
2 (en una cárcel) to imprison
3 (en un hospital, etc) to intern
'recluir' also found in these entries:
English:
confine
- shut away
- intern

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recluir

♦ vt

to shut o lock away, to imprison;

recluyeron a los prisioneros en una cárcel de máxima seguridad they put the prisoners in a maximum security prison

♦ See also the pronominal verb recluirse

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recluir

v/t imprison, confine

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recluir {41} vt

: to confine, to lock up

♦ See also the reflexive verb recluirse