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separated from the presence of others

She has been secluded in her bedroom since receiving the information.

secluded = separated from the presence of others

a secluded romantic spot
Yeah, won't that make a fine honeymoon shack for the lovers? Mighty secluded.
Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

secluded = separated from the presence of others

He leads me to a large warehouse on a secluded back road.
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry

secluded = separated from the presence of others

her seclusion would endure but a little longer
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark

seclusion = separation from the presence of others

(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)

in that secluded garden-spot
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables

secluded = separated from the presence of others

One of the worst things we watched, though, was Lisa coming out of seclusion two days later.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted

seclusion = separation from others

It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion ... that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Masque of the Red Death

seclusion = separation from the presence of others

He found them encamped in a secluded part of the country, at the head of a small stream.
Irving, Washington -- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West
de Villefort has secluded himself.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
But poor Rosa, in her secluded chamber, could not have known of whom or of what Cornelius was dreaming.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Black Tulip
I kept secluded, and watched the weather.
Twain, Mark -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
With their customary compassion and vision, they'd allowed Ty to stay on campus, in an advisory role, with a secluded office and no specific duties.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
It was a quiet, secluded place.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
Indoors he had an old slave woman, a Sikel, keeping house for him in his secluded age.
Homer -- The Odyssey
The hotel was a beautiful, secluded place.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
No point in alarming her; he went out of the back door in the rain and vomited in a secluded corner behind the garage.
Nevil Shute -- On the Beach
He went into complete seclusion.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise

Langdon had the uneasy feeling that gunshots in this secluded, thick-walled chamber would go unheard, especially in this rain.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
But the secluded position of Svidrigailov's lodging had suddenly struck her.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

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