engrillar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /enɡɾiˈʝaɾ/ [ẽŋ.ɡɾiˈʝaɾ]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /enɡɾiˈʎaɾ/ [ẽŋ.ɡɾiˈʎaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /enɡɾiˈʃaɾ/ [ẽŋ.ɡɾiˈʃaɾ]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /enɡɾiˈʒaɾ/ [ẽŋ.ɡɾiˈʒaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: en‧gri‧llar
Verb
engrillar (first-person singular present engrillo, first-person singular preterite engrillé, past participle engrillado)
- to shackle, fetter
- 2023 February 10, Iker Seisdedos, “Relatos de la peor mazmorra de Nicaragua: “Nos engrillaban para dormir o cuando nos llevaban al ‘túnel’. Allí te esperaban los golpes””, in El País:
- “Nos engrillaban para dormir. Dormir con grilletes es complicado”, continúa con voz decidida el muchacho, de 24 años […]
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Conjugation
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Further reading
- “engrillar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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