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enisling

enisling is the present participle and gerund of enisle.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about enisling

What is enisling the present participle and gerund of?
Enisling is the present participle and gerund of enisle.

Words near enisling in the dictionary

  1. enioys
  2. ENISA
  3. enisle
  4. enisled
  5. enisles
  6. enisling
  7. Eniwa
  8. Eniwetok
  9. Enix
  10. Enixes
  11. enjail

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