beleaguerment

seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness; delitescence; rustication, rus in urbe; solitude; solitariness (singleness); isolation; loneliness; estrangement from the world, voluntary exile; aloofness., cell, hermitage; convent; sanctum sanctorum., depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness (unproductive); howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum., exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut., inhospitality, inhospitableness; dissociability; domesticity, Darby and Joan., recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret, anchorite; Simon Stylites; troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic; wastrel, foundling, wilding.

be secluded, live secluded; keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself, creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux; retire, retire from the world; take the veil; abandon; sport one's oak., cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round., depopulate; dispeople, unpeople.

secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye; out of the world, out of the way; "the world forgetting by the world forgot" [Pope]., snug, domestic, stay-at-home., unsociable; unsocial, dissocial; inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic., solitary; lonely, lonesome; isolated, single.