seclude

Verb

seclude (third-person singular simple present secludes, present participle secluding, simple past and past participle secluded)

1. (reflexive, transitive) To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude.
   • At one moment she was absolutely indifferent to the observation of all the world, at another she would seclude herself from it for ever, and at a third could resist it with energy.1811, Jane Austen, chapter 31, in Sense and Sensibility
   • If he wishes to enjoy an hour in his private study, it is not pleasant to be obliged all the time to listen to noises in the next room, even if made by his own servants or his own children. For members of a family themselves require at times to seclude themselves from other members of the family; —...1922, Lafcadio Hearn, Creole Sketches/Old-Fashioned Houses
2. (transitive) To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.