rusticate oneself
1rusticate — v 1. vacation, vacation in the country, sojourn, sojourn in the country, retire to the country, estivate; retire, go into retirement, retire from the world, abandon or forsake the world, seclude oneself, go into seclusion, shut oneself up, hole… …
2retire — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. withdraw, retreat, leave, resign, rusticate, lie low, keep aloof; put out [to pasture]; go to bed. See seclusion, departure, recession, resignation, repose. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To draw away] Syn.… …
3Seclusion — (Roget s Thesaurus) Exclusion. < N PARAG:Seclusion >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 seclusion seclusion privacy Sgm: N 1 retirement retirement Sgm: N 1 reclusion reclusion recess Sgm: N 1 snugness snugness &c. >Adj. Sgm …
4hide — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. skin, pelt, coat; leather. See covering. v. cover, secrete, cloak, veil; dissemble, falsify; hole up; disguise, camouflage. See concealment, secret. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Skin of an animal] Syn. pelt …
5retreat — re·treat n: the act or process of withdrawing from a dangerous situation ◇ Many jurisdictions require that a person must have at least attempted a retreat, if it was possible to do so with safety, in order for a defense of self defense to prevail …
6seclusion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Shutting away Nouns 1. seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; rustication, rus in urbe; solitude; solitariness, isolation; loneness, withdrawal, hermitism, ermitism, anchoritism, voluntary… …
7retire — [v] leave a place or responsibility absent oneself, decamp, deny oneself, depart, draw back, ebb, exit, fall back, get away, get off, give ground, give up work, give way, go, go away, go to bed, go to one’s room*, go to sleep, hand over, hit the… …
8retire — v 1. withdraw, go apart, isolate oneself, secede, separate oneself; rusticate, hibernate, estivate; leave, depart, decamp, take off, go off, go away, abscond; exit, take one s leave; retreat, fall or draw back, give way, lose ground, take flight …
9withdraw — v 1. draw back or in, pull back or in, retract, abduce, Physiol. abduct, Dentistry. retrude; shrink back, recoil, start; take back, take off, recall; remove, subtract; move back, retire, recede, ebb, retrocede. 2. recant, disavow, unsay, disclaim …