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Verb isolate has 4 senses
  1. isolate, insulate - place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
    --1 is one way to discriminate, separate, single out
    Derived form: noun isolation1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  2. isolate - obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
    --2 is one way to     get, acquire
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate - set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
    --3 is one way to separate, disunite, divide, part
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. isolate - separate (experiences) fromt he emotions relating to them
    --4 is one way to     classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate
    Derived form: noun isolation5
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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