isolated
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Isolated is part of the Academic Word List. It is important for students in college and university.
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- 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.
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Adjective[change]
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- If something is isolated it is alone.
- As she got older and her friends moved away, she became more and more isolated.