insulate

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verb

1. protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material (Freq. 2)
- We had his bedroom insulated before winter came
• Derivationally related forms:
insulation, insulant, insulator
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
weatherstrip, soundproof
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. place or set apart (Freq. 2)
- They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates
• Syn:
isolate
• Derivationally related forms:
insulation, isolable (for: isolate), isolation (for: isolate)
• Hypernyms:
discriminate, separate, single out
• Hyponyms:
segregate, ghettoize, ghettoise, cloister, seclude,
sequester, sequestrate, withdraw, quarantine, maroon
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something