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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
- He leads me to a large warehouse on a secluded back road.Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
- her seclusion would endure but a little longerNathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark
- in that secluded garden-spotNathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- One of the worst things we watched, though, was Lisa coming out of seclusion two days later.Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
- 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
- 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
secluded = separated from the presence of others
secluded = separated from the presence of others
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.)
secluded = separated from the presence of others
seclusion = separation from 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.)
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.)
(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.)
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