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Meaning of enisle | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. To make into an island.
    transitive
  2. To isolate.
    broadly, figuratively, transitive

Examples

“[…] 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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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