SECLUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seclude mean? 

• SECLUDE (verb)
  The verb SECLUDE has 1 sense:

1. keep away from others

  Familiarity information: SECLUDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECLUDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they seclude    ... he / she / it secludes   
Past simple: secluded   
Past participle: secluded   
-ing form: secluding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Keep away from others

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

seclude; sequester; sequestrate; withdraw

Context example:

He sequestered himself in his study to write a book

Hypernyms (to "seclude" is one way to...):

insulate; isolate (place or set apart)

Verb group:

adjourn; retire; withdraw (break from a meeting or gathering)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "seclude"):

lose (withdraw, as from reality)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

seclusion (the act of secluding yourself from others)

 Context examples 

It would be a charming introduction for you, who have lived so secluded a life; and I could immediately secure you some of the best society in the place.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The stack of Capricorn planets in your secluded twelfth house would also give you the chance to take care of a surgery your doctor has been telling you need.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

At one moment she was absolutely indifferent to the observation of all the world, at another she would seclude herself from it for ever, and at a third could resist it with energy.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses, each standing in its own grounds.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, after all.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was not without some emotion that he looked upon the scene around him, for, in spite of his secluded life, he knew enough of the ancient greatness of his own family to be aware that the time had been when they had held undisputed and paramount sway over all that tract of country.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The schoolroom was a pretty large hall, on the quietest side of the house, confronted by the stately stare of some half-dozen of the great urns, and commanding a peep of an old secluded garden belonging to the Doctor, where the peaches were ripening on the sunny south wall.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To be sure, it would have been more for the advantage of conversation had Miss Lydia Bennet come upon the town; or, as the happiest alternative, been secluded from the world, in some distant farmhouse.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But great allowances should be given to a king, who lives wholly secluded from the rest of the world, and must therefore be altogether unacquainted with the manners and customs that most prevail in other nations: the want of which knowledge will ever produce many prejudices, and a certain narrowness of thinking, from which we, and the politer countries of Europe, are wholly exempted.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)