MEANING
To keep a person or oneself apart from others, often for privacy, safety, or focused work.
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The witness was secluded from the other jurors until the hearing began.
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Word forms
- Base
- seclude
- Past tense
- secluded
- Past participle
- secluded
- Present participle
- secluding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- seclude
- Present continuous
- am/is/are secluding
- Present perfect
- have/has secluded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been secluding
- Past
- secluded
- Past continuous
- was/were secluding
- Past perfect
- had secluded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been secluding
- Future
- will seclude
- Future continuous
- will be secluding
- Future perfect
- will have secluded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been secluding
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