Definition of "seclude" [se•clude]

• To set or keep apart, as from social contact with others. See Synonyms at isolate. (verb-transitive)
• To screen from view; make private. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "There are probably other good reasons why a group of people would seclude themselves in the forest."
• "Are we really doing this when we seclude ourselves in our own private communities?"
• "Athenian gentlemen may lock her in the remotest part of the home, Catholic theologians seclude her behind convent doors, and Moslem fanatics hide her behind the head-to-toe veil, but intimacy with her is as unavoidable as it is essential.119"