What does enisle mean?
Enisle means (transitive) To make into an island..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To make into an island..
[…] long before England itself was enisled by the sea.
[…] park-like belts of villas enisled by lawns […]
[…] no reply / Comes from the vast, enisling sphere / Of spirit, limitless, divine, / So far from me, so strangely mine.
To-night, dear, / Let's forget all that, that and the war, / And enisle ourselves a little beyond time, / You with this Irish whiskey, I with red wine / While the stars go over the sleepless ocean,
[…] one in ten New Orleansians lived in the projects—some 50,000 souls more or less, almost all of them women with too many children, a gulag of women and children enisled by poverty.
Use enisle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Enisle means (transitive) To make into an island..
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[…] long before England itself was enisled by the sea.
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