Meanings (ES + gloss)
cerrar
To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
cerrar • clausurar
To terminate (a business).
encerrar • guardar • resguardar
To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.
The engineer had shut the locomotive up in the shed for twenty years.
The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon.
acallantar • acallar • callantar • callar • callarse • cerrar la boca • encerrar
Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.
He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut him up.
You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music – would you mind shutting up?