transitive. To confine, shut up, or seclude; = reclude, v. Also reflexive.

transitive. To set aside, separate. To seclude (a person, thing, or place) from general access or intercourse; to keep apart from society. Now rare…

To remove (a person) from a position; to cause to retire or recede; †occasionally to take aside; spec. to cause (a force, troops) to retire from a…

transitive. To remove, put away; to seclude, keep away from general access or intercourse; to put in a place of concealment or confinement. = sequ…

to seclude.

transitive. In later use chiefly reflexive. To cut (a person) off from the world, society, etc.; to seclude from. Now rare.

In wider sense: To remove or guard from public view; to withdraw from opportunities of social intercourse. Often reflexive, to live in retirement or…

To consign to a position of obscurity, inaccessibility, or inaction; often reflexive and in passive.

transitive. gen. To set back or away; to conceal.

figurative. To bring into a backwater.