"isolated" in the verb sense
1. isolate, insulate
place or set apart
"They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
2. isolate
obtain in pure form
"The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
3. sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate
set apart from others
"The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
4. isolate
separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
"isolated" in the adjective sense
1. isolated, stray
not close together in time
"isolated instances of rebellion"
"a few stray crumbs"
2. detached, isolated, separated, set-apart
being or feeling set or kept apart from others
"she felt detached from the group"
"could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson
"thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"
"had a set-apart feeling"
3. disjunct, isolated
marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
"little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly
4. isolated, marooned, stranded
cut off or left behind
"an isolated pawn"
"several stranded fish in a tide pool"
"travelers marooned by the blizzard"
5. isolated, quarantined
under forced isolation especially for health reasons
"a quarantined animal"
"isolated patients"
6. apart, isolated, obscure
remote and separate physically or socially
"existed over the centuries as a world apart"
"preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson
"tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"
"an obscure village"
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