isolate

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 4.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To set apart or cut off from others.
2. verb To place in quarantine or isolation.
3. verb To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
4. verb To insulate, or make free of external influence.
5. verb To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
6. verb To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.
7. verb To self-isolate.
8. noun Something that has been isolated.

Similar words

sequester sequestrate set apart insulate keep apart isolation separate dissociate alienate segregate

Often followed by

the and a them themselves it from of one

Word family

isolated isolates isolating isolation isolationism isolator isolators