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se⋅clude

  [si-klood]
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–verb (used with object), -clud⋅ed, -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.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME < L sēclūdere, equiv. to sē- se- + -clūdere, comb. form of claudere to close
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se·clude   (sĭ-klōōd')   
tr.v.   se·clud·ed, se·clud·ing, se·cludes

  1. To set or keep apart, as from social contact with others. See Synonyms at isolate.

  2. To screen from view; make private.


[Middle English secluden, to shut off, from Latin sēclūdere : sē-, apart; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + claudere, to shut.]
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Word Origin & History

seclude 
1451, "to shut up, enclose, confine," from L. 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 1628. Secluded, in ref. to places, is from 1798.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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