secluding

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
2. (transitive) To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.