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/səˈkluːd/ · verb
(transitive, chiefly reflexive) 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 hear; there are numberless things which the heads of a household wish to discuss by themselves.
Use seclude when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Seclude means (transitive, chiefly reflexive) To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude..
Common synonyms include withdraw, sequester, sequestrate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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 hear; there are numberless things which the heads of a household wish to discuss by themselves.
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