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isolated Verb

— If you isolate something, you make it so that it does not or cannot contact certain other things. We went to isolate ourselves from everyday worries. The prisoner was isolated to protect him from attack. Britain is isolated from the rest of Europe by the Channel.

isolated Adjective

— If something is isolated it is alone. As she got older and her friends moved away, she became more and more isolated.

isolated

— adjective (= stray) not close together in time isolated instances of rebellion a few stray crumbs — adjective (= detached, 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 — adjective (= disjunct) 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 — adjective (= marooned, stranded) cut off or left behind an isolated pawn several stranded fish in a tide pool travelers marooned by the blizzard — adjective (= quarantined) under forced isolation especially for health reasons a quarantined animal isolated patients — adjective (= apart, 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

Synonyms isolated synonyms

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isolated English » English

solitary secluded lonely separate remote separated detached alone single uninhabited insulated stranded sequestered lonesome deserted stray quarantined obscure marooned lone individual desolate cut off apart unattended set-apart segregated reclusive outlying out of the way only incommunicado hidden helpless faraway distant disjunct desert withdrawn unprotected unitary unique unintegrated uninhabited area unfrequented uncoordinated unconnected unassisted transient standing alone

Topics isolated topics

What do people use isolated to talk about?

Social behavior Relationships Disunity

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Simple sentences

Sami wasn't entirely isolated.

The infectious case was isolated from other patients.

The village was isolated by the flood.

The village was isolated by the heavy storm.

This area is extremely isolated.

No nation can exist completely isolated from others.

I felt isolated.

Tom grew up in an isolated village deep in the mountains.

His antisocial behavior isolated him.

We've isolated the problem.

Tom got a flat tyre on an isolated country road and had no idea how to change it.

I was totally isolated.

The country is isolated economically and politically.

This is a horror staple - young men and women spend a night of terror in an isolated house.

Movie subtitles

The child must be isolated.

Isolated two years.

The professor ordered that he be isolated.

I dread the future. shut up in this isolated spot. dedicated to serve certainly the lowliest subjects of God's kingdom. and dedicated to a belief in their equality with me before God.

This house is rather isolated, as you see.

But the farther I came, the more all isolated events lost their meanings.

Still, you must admit it's a very isolated location. and I've often thought of you out here alone without the protection of a man, the right man, could offer you.

Aside from isolated cases.

And now, I think they ought to be isolated.

And you're not as much isolated as you may think.

Makes me feel isolated.

Even you make me feel isolated.

Must be wretched having to keep yourself isolated from your men.

Huxley's battalion is isolated.

The child must be isolated. - Really?

But the building of an isolated playground to shield my boys from crime.. isnotrootingout the crimeitself.

An image of Greenland and the Arctic, isolated lakes are lying ahead of us, freeing themselves from the shimmering, ice mountains.

That's where you're wrong, old boy. In an isolated place a cry for help or a single shot might very well arouse the curiosity of at least one casual witness.

We know that there are many small isolated units throughout the country and we're not forgetting them.

Dartmoor prison. Isolated from the outside world by walls of granite.

Following my instructions, they had isolated my patient.

If Wiegler pushes the button, the current will reach the headphone which is not isolated enough.

I am suggesting a completely voluntary and isolated contribution. for a state of emergency.

In such an emergency, we should like to make sure that our contributions are. isolated. for the purpose of paying soldiers and purchasing arms.

At the end of the season, she feels isolated.

It's a bit isolated.

But he said he'd be too isolated.

Isolated, possessing hate.

I didn't realize how isolated it was here.

No need to waste time sitting isolated Russian garrisons we meet on the way.

I know it's stupid, but the cabin's so isolated.

She should be isolated.

Very few isolated tourists. still milled about in this weak September sun.

If they posted me to the dark side of the moon, I could not be more isolated.

So lost, so isolated from the big world, poor souls.

News and current affairs

Haider and his party deserve to be politically isolated and ostracized.

Simply put, North Koreans are not as isolated as they once were, and have a growing appreciation of their impoverishment, owing primarily to greater trade and closer connections with booming China.

But whether the Yukos affair proves to be an isolated case, as the Kremlin insists, depends on a reading of Russian President Vladimir Putin's motives.

In a region with a strong indigenous past but a scattered and isolated present, Bolivia is, alongside Guatemala, perhaps the only country in Latin America where indigenous peoples make up a majority of the population.

Because much of this data comes from work with isolated systems, and therefore on all brains, an obvious criticism is that you can't extrapolate from such data.

Though still in its infancy, the internet has shown that it has the power to shake China loose from its stagnant, isolated and repressive past.

Everywhere we look (except, perhaps, in New Guinea's deep valleys, where obscure tribes may remain isolated from one another), there are only mixed cultures.

The elected officials will be denied travel permits, workers from isolated Gaza barred from entering Israel, and every effort is being made to block funds to Palestinians.

As presently circumscribed and isolated, without access to the air, sea, or the West Bank, Gaza is a nonviable economic and political entity.

But these measures will be successful only if they are not taken in an isolated and populist way.

It focused on isolated cases of abuse, and failed to challenge well-established ways of mistreating animals on farms or in laboratories.

So offers of citizenship, such as to Germany's long isolated Turkish residents, however delayed, should not be lightly spurned.

Already, issues like climate change and energy supply demonstrate the futility of isolated national action and the critical importance of both deepening and enlarging the EU.

NEW YORK - Nobody would care much about North Korea - a small and isolated country of 24 million people, ruled by a grotesque dynasty that calls itself communist - if it were not for its nuclear weapons.

European countries have become so interconnected that isolated national measures on issues like financial-market regulation are hopeless.

His hard-line approach isolated Japan and angered China, leading to an outburst of anti-Japanese demonstrations in China in 2005.

Iran, too, feels besieged, though it is not isolated: it depends heavily on trade, and not just as a seller of oil.

Home prices exploded after 2000 in North America, Europe, and Asia, and in many isolated places elsewhere in the world.

Myanmar has effectively isolated itself for more than 50 years.

Palestinians working in Israel are good for both sides, and better than the foreigners who come from distant lands and live an isolated life in Israel, solitary and under constant threat of expulsion.

As long as protests remain local, however, they can be managed as isolated cases that won't pose a broader challenge or spark a movement toward systemic change.

Despite being isolated and ostracized, Iran has managed to gain some strategic breathing room with the help of countries like China, Russia, India, Syria, and Venezuela, allowing it to resist Western pressure.

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