/si kloohd"/ , v.t., secluded, secluding .
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.
[ 1425-75; late ME secludere, equiv. to se- SE- + -cludere, comb. form of claudere to CLOSE ]