to cloister

Examples

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• The monks chose to cloister themselves within the monastery to focus on their spiritual practices.

• Catholic monastics, even those who are cloistered, are deeply immersed in the world.

  Blog text (3)

• This whole thing, this cloistered basilica, your underground freeway.

  Fiction book (1999)

• "He ordered a media blackout to facilitate the airing of views and cloistered the parties in the U.S. ambassador's residence in London away from the media.

  Blog text (26)

• Cloistered monks, though discouraged from going on pilgrimage to the earthly city, could nonetheless use Matthew's maps for an imaginative journey to the Heavenly Jerusalem.

  Academic text (1999)

• As part of the renovation, they decided to cloister the garden with a new covered walkway.

Synonyms

E

to enclose

vsto cloister

84 3.7

Surround something completely, often with a wall or fence

surrounds areas by adding a covered walkway rather than only barriers

W

to wall

vsto cloister

41 6.4

To surround an area with a wall to protect it

uses a covered walkway to enclose spaces rather than fortify them

W

to walled

vsto cloister

4.1

To build a wall around something to protect or separate it

uses a covered passage to enclose rather than a solid protective barrier

Antonyms

O

to open

∞ 1.0

To make something not closed so you can get in

Phrasal Verbs

C

to cloister away

9.1

To keep a person or thing alone in a quiet place away from other people

How Isolating

to isolate

256 4.2

to seclude

2 6.7

to envelop

41 4.5

to cloister

1 9.0

to enclose

84 3.7

to surround

∞ 1.7

Surface Forms

Etymology