secluding

Variant of seclude

transitive verb secluded, secluding

  1. to keep away or apart from others; bar or shut off from the view of or relations with others; isolate
  2. to make private or hidden; screen

Origin: ME secluden < L secludere < se-, apart (see secede) + claudere, to close

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