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seclude


verb (used with object), se·clud·ed, se·clud·ing.

  1. to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
  2. to isolate; shut off; keep apart: They secluded the garden from the rest of the property.

verb (tr)

  1. to remove from contact with others
  2. to shut off or screen from view

v.mid-15c., “to shut up, enclose, confine,” from Latin secludere “shut off, confine,” from se- “apart” (see secret) + -cludere, variant of claudere “to shut” (see close (v.)). Meaning “to remove or guard from public view” is recorded from 1620s. Related: Secluded; secluding.

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