encheren.chervt+vint+vpr1 to fill: a) make full:
a sua voz encheu o aposento / his voice filled the room:
ele encheu um copo de vinho / he filled a glass with wine. b) satisfy, satiate, saturate, glut:
ele encheu a pança /
coloq he crammed his guts.
2 to abound.
3 to stuff, load, charge.
4 to crowd.
5 bras,
gír to try one’s patience, annoy, bore, tire.
6 encher-se a) to become full:
ele encheu-se de orgulho / he swelled with pride. b) to surfeit, satiate oneself. c)
gír to lose one’s patience, get annoyed, bored.
de grão em grão a galinha enche o papo many a little makes a mickle, little strokes fell great oaks.
Expressõesencher alguém de medo to strike someone with fear.
encher a paciência/encher o saco gír to bore, tire, annoy.
encher as medidas to exhaust another’s patience.
encher até a borda to brim.
encher completamente to fill up.
encher demais to overfill.
encher linguiça to pad out (a text or speech), beat around the bush.
encher um pneu to pump up a tire.
encher um tanque to fill up a tank.
enchi-me de ânimo I cheered up.
não encha a cabeça dele don’t put ideas into his head.
palavras não enchem barriga fig a hungry belly has no ears.
