closet vs seclude

closet

verb
  • To shut away for private discussion. 

  • To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation. 

  • To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement. 

adj
  • closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet) 

  • Denoting anything kept a secret or private. 

noun
  • A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies. 

  • A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet. 

  • One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes. 

  • A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity. 

  • An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad. 

  • The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager. 

seclude

verb
  • To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude. 

  • To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude. 

How often have the words closet and seclude occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )