Synonyms:
isolate, insulate
Meaning: place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
Synonyms:
isolate
Meaning: obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
Synonyms:
sequester, sequestrate, keep_apart, set_apart, isolate
Meaning: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
Usage examples
The bourgeoisie tried to isolate the revolutionary army.
It accounts for the tendency to isolate intellectual matters till knowledge is scholastic, academic, and professionally technical, and for the widespread conviction that liberal education is opposed to the requirements of an education which shall count in the vocations of life.
This product--the third and last degree of human sociability--is determined by our complex mode of association; in which inequality, or rather the divergence of faculties, and the speciality of functions--tending of themselves to isolate laborers--demand a more active sociability.