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seclude

/si-klood/US // sɪˈklud //UK // (sɪˈkluːd) //

隔离,隐瞒,僻静,隐蔽

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    se·clud·ed, se·clud·ing.

    • : to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
    • : to isolate; shut off; keep apart: They secluded the garden from the rest of the property.

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Examples

  • We were again in the middle of a lonely place, secluded like an intruder.

  • He had been secluded as a child and has spoken about the harm it caused.

  • ISBE found that in nearly 11,000 of those incidents, school workers identified no safety risk before secluding or restraining a student, as required by state law.

  • Sahar spent the initial three months of her marriage crying and secluding herself from the rest of the village.

  • He had not yet begun to seclude himself, and he and his companions seemed to be trying to make the best of their situation.

  • She seemed anxious to seclude herself from the world, and to seek to drown her grief in the solitude she had formerly avoided.

  • It had led him to seclude himself from the gay little Delisleville world and cut himself off from young friendships.

  • This is merely an iron pot, with a close fitting flange lid so as to seclude all dust and ashes, and we used it in this way.

  • Darling, how I hate to seclude you from the gaze of men because I am too poor to adorn you like the rest.