encher

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese encher (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin implēre, present active infinitive of impleō.

encher (first-person singular present encho, first-person singular preterite enchín, past participle enchido)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to fill

   Antonyms: baleirar, baldeirar

   • 2019 May 17, “Milleiros de galegos maniféstanse a prol da nosa lingua”, in G24‎:

     As rúas de varias vilas e cidades enchíanse de xente que se manifestaba a prol da lingua.

     The streets of several towns and cities filled with people who protested in support of the [Galician] language.

2. to sate

   Synonyms: fartar, saciar

3. to flood (a river)
4. to flood (the tide)
5. to bore, tire

   Synonym: fartar

• enchedoira
• enchedoiro
• enchenta
• enchente

• cheo

• “encher” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

• “encher” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “encher” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “encher” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “encher” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “encher” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Inherited from Old Portuguese encher, from Latin implēre (“to fill up”). Cognate with Galician encher.

• Hyphenation: en‧cher

encher (first-person singular present encho, first-person singular preterite enchi, past participle enchido)

1. to fill, fill up
2. to inflate (e.g. a balloon or a tyre)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:encher.

• preencher

• cheio

• “encher” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913