closeting

Verb

closet (third-person singular simple present closets, present participle closeting, simple past and past participle closeted)

1. (transitive) To shut away for private discussion.
   • The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
2. (transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
   • He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC
3. (transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
   • See what contempt is fallen on human kind; […] See Bedlam's closeted and handcuff'd charge / Surpass'd in frenzy by the mad at large;1784, William Cowper, Tirocinium, or A Review of Schools

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