籠もる

こもる · komoru · JLPT N1 · verb-godan

to be confined in

🧺 籠 = cage or basket; 籠もる = to be shut inside, like a bird kept in a cage

Komoru comes from kago (籠), meaning basket or cage. To seclude yourself is to be enclosed and kept inside, away from the outside world.

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