cloister
/ˈklɔɪstɚ/ verb C2- To become a Roman Catholic religious.
- To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
- To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
- To provide with a cloister or cloisters. · The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.
- To protect or isolate.
He/she/it cloisters · Past cloistered · Past participle cloistered · -ing form cloistering
Verb forms
- Base form
- cloister
- He/she/it
- cloisters
- Past
- cloistered
- Past participle
- cloistered
- -ing form
- cloistering
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