shut in

encerrar

Mantener a alguien o algo dentro de un lugar sin permitirle salir.

En inglés sencillo: To keep someone or something inside a place so they cannot leave.

• Do not shut the cat in.
• She accidentally shut herself in the bathroom.
• We were shut in the house by heavy snow.

Cómo se usa: shut someone/something in + place (They shut the dog in the kitchen.)

Sinónimos: confine, lock in

Antónimos: let out, release

Expresiones frecuentes: shut someone in, shut something in

rodear, cercar

Rodear un lugar por todos lados, haciendo que parezca cerrado y aislado.

En inglés sencillo: To surround a place completely, making it feel closed off.

• High walls shut in the garden.
• The valley was shut in by mountains.
• Tall buildings shut in the little courtyard.

Cómo se usa: be shut in by something (The village is shut in by steep hills.)

Sinónimos: enclose, surround

Expresiones frecuentes: shut in a valley, shut in the garden

cerrar un pozo

Detener la salida de petróleo de un pozo y suspender su producción.

En inglés sencillo: To stop oil from flowing out of a well, ending its production.

• They shut in the oil well.
• Several wells were shut in after the storm.
• Falling prices forced the company to shut in production.

Cómo se usa: shut in something (The operator shut in the well after the leak.)

Sinónimos: halt production

Expresiones frecuentes: shut in a well, shut in oil wells