"seclude" meaning in English

See seclude in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /səˈkluːd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-seclude.wav Forms: secludes [present, singular, third-person], secluding [participle, present], secluded [participle, past], secluded [past]
Rhymes: -uːd Etymology: From Latin secludo. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|secludo}} Latin secludo Head templates: {{en-verb}} seclude (third-person singular simple present secludes, present participle secluding, simple past and past participle secluded)
  1. (transitive) To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-seclude-en-verb-62f1WZtm
  2. (transitive) To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-seclude-en-verb-83PclscH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 35 65 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: secluded, secludedly Related terms: seclusion, seclusive

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "secluded"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    }
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    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin secludo.",
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    {
      "form": "secludes",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "secluding",
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        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "secluded",
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    },
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "seclusion"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "seclusive"
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  ],
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, Lafcadio Hearn, Creole Sketches/Old-Fashioned Houses:",
          "text": "If he wishes to enjoy an hour in his private study, it is not pleasant to be obliged all the time to listen to noises in the next room, even if made by his own servants or his own children. For members of a family themselves require at times to seclude themselves from other members of the family; — there are business matters to be talked of; there are projects which children or servants should not hear; there are numberless things which the heads of a household wish to discuss by themselves.",
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        }
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        "To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "shut off",
          "shut off"
        ],
        [
          "keep",
          "keep"
        ],
        [
          "apart",
          "apart"
        ],
        [
          "withdraw",
          "withdraw"
        ],
        [
          "solitude",
          "solitude"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude."
      ],
      "id": "en-seclude-en-verb-83PclscH",
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          "shut",
          "shut out"
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          "keep out",
          "keep out"
        ],
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          "exclude",
          "exclude"
        ],
        [
          "preclude",
          "preclude"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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    },
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      "rhymes": "-uːd"
    }
  ],
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    "English terms derived from Latin",
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    "Rhymes:English/uːd/2 syllables"
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    },
    {
      "form": "secluding",
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      "form": "secluded",
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      "word": "seclusion"
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    {
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    }
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        "English transitive verbs"
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          "ref": "1922, Lafcadio Hearn, Creole Sketches/Old-Fashioned Houses:",
          "text": "If he wishes to enjoy an hour in his private study, it is not pleasant to be obliged all the time to listen to noises in the next room, even if made by his own servants or his own children. For members of a family themselves require at times to seclude themselves from other members of the family; — there are business matters to be talked of; there are projects which children or servants should not hear; there are numberless things which the heads of a household wish to discuss by themselves.",
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        }
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        "To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude."
      ],
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          "shut off",
          "shut off"
        ],
        [
          "keep",
          "keep"
        ],
        [
          "apart",
          "apart"
        ],
        [
          "withdraw",
          "withdraw"
        ],
        [
          "solitude",
          "solitude"
        ]
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        "(transitive) To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude."
      ],
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        [
          "shut",
          "shut out"
        ],
        [
          "keep out",
          "keep out"
        ],
        [
          "exclude",
          "exclude"
        ],
        [
          "preclude",
          "preclude"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/səˈkluːd/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "seclude"
}

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