seclude

[si-klood]

verb (used with object)

secluded, secluding 

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.

seclude

/ sɪˈkluːd /

verb

1. to remove from contact with others

2. to shut off or screen from view

Other Word Forms

• unsecluding adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of seclude¹

1425–75; late Middle English < Latin sēclūdere, equivalent to sē- se- + -clūdere, combining form of claudere to close

Word History and Origins

Origin of seclude¹

C15: from Latin sēclūdere to shut off, from sē- + claudere to imprison

Example Sentences

As such, when Robbie makes Tom drive to a secluded, wooded area, we register the anxious edge in this situation.

From Salon

The trail feels like a hidden urban oasis, secluded yet right in the middle of everything.

From Salon

The skeletal remains of a man who went missing six years ago were found by a walker in a secluded area in south Wales, an inquest has heard.

From BBC

Clandestine officers - under operation name Mayland - followed him to regular liaisons at a secluded woodland patch of land near the busy M4 motorway where several drugs exchanges were caught on camera.

From BBC

Club founder Nandi Owolo, 30, watched the revelry from a secluded lounge chair, sitting for the first time all day, and marveled at what her little club had become.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• cloister 
• ostracize 
• sequester