recluded
recluded is the simple past and past participle of reclude.
Meaning of reclude
Verb
reclude (third-person singular simple present recludes, present participle recluding, simple past and past participle recluded)
- To open; to unblock.
- To close off, to confine.
- 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
Questions about recluded
- What is recluded the simple past and past participle of?
- Recluded is the simple past and past participle of reclude.
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