All cloistering synonyms

verb cloistering

• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• isolate — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
• cloister — A cloister is a covered area round a square in a monastery or a cathedral.
• ostracise — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
• ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
• sequester — to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
• blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
• boycott — If a country, group, or person boycotts a country, organization, or activity, they refuse to be involved with it in any way because they disapprove of it.
• closet — A closet is a piece of furniture with doors at the front and shelves inside, which is used for storing things.
• conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• immure — to enclose within walls.
• quarantine — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
• retire — a movement in which the dancer brings one foot to the knee of the supporting leg and then returns it to the fifth position.
• screen — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
• segregate — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
• separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
• withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
• shut off — the act or time of shutting or closing.
• seclude — to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
• insulate — to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound: to insulate an electric wire with a rubber sheath; to insulate a coat with down.
• secrete — a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.
• cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
• draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
• island — a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
• set apart — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• set off — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
• incarcerate — to imprison; confine.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
• coop — A coop is a cage where you keep small animals or birds such as chickens and rabbits.