reclude

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/ɹɪˈkluːd/

verb

To open; to unblock.

OriginLatin reclūdere →
First used 15th–19th c.Scrabble 10
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Meanings

verbreclude (third-person singular simple present recludes, present participle recluding, simple past and past participle recluded)

present singular third person recludes · participle present recluding · participle past recluded · past recluded

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo open; to unblock.First known use 15th–19th c.
  2. reflexivetransitiveTo close off, to confine.First known use 16th c.
  3. reflexivetransitiveTo seclude, cut off from the community, the world etc.First known use 16th c.

    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

Origin

  1. Latinreclūdere“to open; to shut off”
  2. Englishreclude

From Latin reclūdere (“to open; to shut off”), from re- + claudere (“to close”).

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Translations

Catalan recloure
  • recloure(''transitive'')
Spanish recluir
  • recluir(''transitive'')

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with reclude

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Anagrams

ulcered
Cite this entry
APA

reclude. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reclude

MLA

“reclude.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reclude. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reclude,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reclude.

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