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reclude

/ɹɪˈkluːd/

reclude verb: to open; to unblock.

Verb

reclude (third-person singular simple present recludes, present participle recluding, simple past and past participle recluded)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To open; to unblock.
  2. (reflexive, transitive) To close off, to confine.
  3. (reflexive, transitive) To seclude, cut off from the community, the world etc.
    • And, surely, no woman who knows that of herself can be rightly censured for not recluding herself from the world: it is only women without the power to love who have no right to provoke men's love.1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

reclude meaning in Bengali

reclude in Bengali

খোলা, বাধা অপসারণ করা

Forms of reclude

third-person singular presentrecludes
present participlerecluding
past participlerecluded
pastrecluded

Origin of reclude

From Latin reclūdere (“to open; to shut off”), from re- + claudere (“to close”).

Words that rhyme with reclude

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Questions about reclude

What does reclude mean?
Reclude means to open; to unblock.
What is reclude in Bengali?
Reclude in Bengali is খোলা, বাধা অপসারণ করা. See Reclude meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is reclude?
Reclude is a verb.
How do you pronounce reclude?
Reclude is pronounced /ɹɪˈkluːd/.
What is the past tense of reclude?
The past tense of reclude is recluded.

Words near reclude in the dictionary

  1. recloud
  2. reclouded
  3. reclouding
  4. reclouds
  5. recloven
  6. reclude
  7. recluded
  8. recludes
  9. recluding
  10. recluse
  11. recluse spider

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reclude (page history and authors); reclude (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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