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English
Etymology
From Latin reclūdere (“to open; to shut off”), from re- + claudere (“to close”).
Pronunciation
Verb
reclude (third-person singular simple present recludes, present participle recluding, simple past and past participle recluded)
- (transitive, obsolete) To open; to unblock.
- (transitive or reflexive) To close off, to confine.
- (transitive or reflexive) To seclude, cut off from the community, the world etc.
1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:And, surely, no woman who knows that of herself can be rightly censured for not recluding herself from the world: it is only women without the power to love who have no right to provoke men's love.
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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈklu.de/
- Rhymes: -ude
- Hyphenation: re‧clù‧de
Verb
reclude
- third-person singular present indicative of recludere
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Latin
Verb
reclūde
- second-person singular present active imperative of reclūdō