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transitive verb
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Synonyms
cut off, insulate, isolate, segregate, separate, sequester
Antonyms
desegregate, integrate, reintegrate
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circa 1533, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Middle English, to cut off (from), from Latin secludere to separate, seclude, from se- apart + claudere to close — more at secede, close
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