verb
- Place or set apart.
- usage: "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
- Obtain in pure form.
- usage: "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
- synonyms: isolate
- Set apart from others.
- usage: "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
- synonyms: sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate
- Separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them.
- synonyms: isolate
adjective
- Relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles. .
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