Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

reclude

/ɹɪˈkluːd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-clude
IPA: /ɹɪˈkluːd/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To open; to unblock.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

verb

To close off, to confine.

Transitive verb

verb

To seclude, cut off from the community, the world etc.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: reclūdere

Usage

Inflected Forms

recludes (present, singular) recluding (participle, present) recluded (participle, past) recluded (past)

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce reclude?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɹɪˈkluːd/.
What does reclude mean?: To open; to unblock.
Where does reclude come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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