Entry Word: isolate

Function: verb

Meaning: to set or keep apart from others <isolated her in a corner for a five-minute punishment after she threw a book at her friend>

Synonyms cut off, insulate, seclude, segregate, separate, sequester

Related Words quarantine; confine, immure, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock (up), restrain, restrict; detach, disengage, remove; detain, hold, keep

Near Antonyms associate, connect, join, link, unite; discharge, free, liberate, loose, release

Antonyms desegregate, integrate