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recludes

recludes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reclude.

Meaning of reclude

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

Questions about recludes

What is recludes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Recludes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reclude.

Words near recludes in the dictionary

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

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