enisle

Verb

enisle (third-person singular simple present enisles, present participle enisling, simple past and past participle enisled)

1. (transitive) To make into an island.
   • […] long before England itself was enisled by the sea.1930, Walter De la Mare, Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, page 118
   • […] park-like belts of villas enisled by lawns […]1966, David Keir, The City of Edinburgh, Collins, page 28
2. (broadly, figuratively, transitive) To isolate.
   • […] no reply / Comes from the vast, enisling sphere / Of spirit, limitless, divine, / So far from me, so strangely mine.1876, Edmond Holmes, “After Death”, in Poems, London: Henry S. King & Co., page 82
   • To-night, dear, / Let's forget all that, that and the war, / And enisle ourselves a little beyond time, / You with this Irish whiskey, I with red wine / While the stars go over the sleepless ocean,1925, Robinson Jeffers, “For Una”, in The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers, Stanford University Press, published 2003, p