Enisle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Enisle is a verb meaning (transitive) To make into an island.
Meaning
(transitive) To make into an island.
More Meanings
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To isolate.
Example Sentences
[…] park-like belts of villas enisled by lawns […]
[…] long before England itself was enisled by the sea.
[…] no reply / Comes from the vast, enisling sphere / Of spirit, limitless, divine, / So far from me, so strangely mine.
[…] 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.
Word Forms
- enisles
- enisling
- enisled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include maroon, isolate, island, deisolate, enstraiten, illiberalize.
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