To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

(obsolete, rare) Separated.

(physiology, transitive, of organs, glands, etc.) To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.

(transitive) To conceal.

Archaic form of secret.

The ordinal form of the number twenty-two. / Lasting twenty seconds.

The person or thing in the twenty-second position. / One of twenty-two equal parts of a whole.

Hidden, isolated, remote.

simple past tense and past participle of seclude

Those countries aligned with the East during the Cold War, particularly in contrast to those aligned with the West (First World).