enisle

1. (transitive) To make into an island.Examples: "[…] long before England itself was enisled by the sea."; "[…] park-like belts of villas enisled by lawns […]"transitive

2. (transitive, figurative, by extension) To isolate.Examples: "[…] 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."broadlyfigurativelytransitive