reclude

From Latin reclūdere (“to open; to shut off”), from re- + claudere (“to close”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkluːd/

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• Rhymes: -uːd

reclude (third-person singular simple present recludes, present participle recluding, simple past and past participle recluded)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To open; to unblock. [15th–19th c.]
2. (transitive or reflexive) To close off, to confine. [from 16th c.]
3. (transitive or reflexive) To seclude, cut off from the community, the world etc. [from 16th c.]
   • 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.

• reculed, ulcered

• IPA^(key): /reˈklu.de/
• Rhymes: -ude
• Hyphenation: re‧clù‧de

reclude

1. third-person singular present indicative of recludere

• credule, crudele

reclūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of reclūdō