Seclude \Se*clude\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secluded; p. pr. & vb.
n. Secluding.] [L. secludere, seclusum; pref. se- aside +
claudere to shut. See Close, v. t.]
1. To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place
in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with
others.
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Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven
Seclude their bosom slaves. --Thomson.
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2. To shut or keep out; to exclude. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
secluded
adj 1: hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and
think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden"
[syn: privy, secret]
2: providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic
world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered
pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade
tree"; "a secluded romantic spot" [syn: cloistered, reclusive,
sequestered]
WordNet (r) 2.0
115 Moby Thesaurus words for "secluded":
abstruse, alone, anonymous, apart, at rest, beclouded, blind,
buried, calm, cloistered, close, closet, clouded, concealed, cool,
covered, covert, detached, dwindling, ebbing, eclipsed, eremitic,
even-tenored, far-off, halcyon, hermetic, hid, hidden, hushed,
impassive, in a backwater, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse,
in purdah, in the wings, incognito, incommunicado, inmost,
innermost, insular, interior, intimate, inward, isolated, latent,
lonely, moldering, monastic, mysterious, obfuscated, obscure,
obscured, occult, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, pacific,
peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy, quarantined,
quiescent, quiet, recluse, recondite, remote, removed, reposeful,
reposing, restful, resting, retired, screened, secluse, seclusive,
secret, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated,
sheltered, shut off, shy, smooth, solitary, still, still as death,
stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tranquil, unagitated,
under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps,
underground, undisturbed, unfrequented, unknown, unmoved,
unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, unvisited, waning,
withdrawn, wrapped in clouds
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
cloistered, privy, reclusive, secret, sequestered
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