Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To set or keep apart, as from social contact with others. synonym: isolate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw from society or into solitude: as, to
seclude one's self from the world. - To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.
- transitive verb obsolete To shut or keep out; to exclude.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.;withdraw from society or intosolitude : as, to seclude oneself from the world. - verb transitive To
shut orkeep out ;exclude ;preclude .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb keep away from others
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Many staff members lack up-to-date training in how to safely restrain or seclude a patient and how to intervene in a crisis situation.
Two reports find progress, lingering problems at St. Elizabeths Henri E. Cauvin 2011
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Many staff members lack up-to-date training in how to safely restrain or seclude a patient and how to intervene in a crisis situation.
Two reports find progress, lingering problems at St. Elizabeths Henri E. Cauvin 2011
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Are we really doing this when we seclude ourselves in our own private communities?
Austin Carty: A Christian Plea For Public Education Austin Carty 2011
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Athenian gentlemen may lock her in the remotest part of the home, Catholic theologians seclude her behind convent doors, and Moslem fanatics hide her behind the head-to-toe veil, but intimacy with her is as unavoidable as it is essential.119
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Are we really doing this when we seclude ourselves in our own private communities?
Austin Carty: A Christian Plea For Public Education Austin Carty 2011
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Are we really doing this when we seclude ourselves in our own private communities?
Austin Carty: A Christian Plea For Public Education Austin Carty 2011
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Are we really doing this when we seclude ourselves in our own private communities?
Austin Carty: A Christian Plea For Public Education Austin Carty 2011
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There are probably other good reasons why a group of people would seclude themselves in the forest.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Trollitrade’s Review Forum 2009
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Are we really doing this when we seclude ourselves in our own private communities?
Austin Carty: A Christian Plea For Public Education Austin Carty 2011
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Are we really doing this when we seclude ourselves in our own private communities?
Austin Carty: A Christian Plea For Public Education Austin Carty 2011
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