seclude means to shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
seclude is pronounced /səˈkluːd/.
Etymology
From Latin secludo.
verb
- To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude.“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”
- To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.