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enisle

American  
[en-ahyl] / ɛnˈaɪl /

verb (used with object)

enisled, enisling

  1. to make an island of.

  2. to place on an island.

  3. to isolate.

enisle British  
/ ɪnˈaɪl /

verb

  1. poetic (tr) to put on or make into an island

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Etymology

Origin of enisle

First recorded in 1605–15; en- 1 + isle

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The map shows how Northern sea-power could not only divide the South in two but almost enisle the eastern part as well.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry

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