seclude

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   formal: to keep oneself or another person apart from contact with other people

   The writer chose to seclude herself in a quiet cottage for the winter.

Simplified etymology

Seclude comes from Latin claudere, “to shut,” combined with se-, “apart.” It entered English in the late Middle English period.

From Latin secludere, 'to shut off,' formed from se- 'apart' and claudere 'to shut.' In late Middle English it first referred to blocking access, then developed the social sense of keeping apart.

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