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   Quar·an·tine

   /ˈkwôrənˌtēn/

   

   noun

   • 1. a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that may have been exposed to infectious disease are placed: "horses entering the country must stay in quarantine longer"

   verb

   • 1. place (a person or animal) in quarantine in order to prevent the spread of an infectious disease: "I quarantine all new fish for one month"
   • ▪ remain apart from others for a period of time in order to prevent the transmission of an infectious disease to which one may have been exposed: "we are seeing exponential growth in new cases because people failed to quarantine after traveling abroad"

   Word Origin late 15th century (in sense ‘place where Jesus fasted for forty days’): from medieval Latin quarentena and Anglo-Norman French quarenteine, quarenteinne. The modern sense is from Italian quarantina ‘forty days’, from quaranta ‘forty’, and dates from the mid 17th century.

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   Synonyms for QUARANTINE: confine, remove, separate, isolate, jail, restrict, restrain, intern; Antonyms of QUARANTINE: join, connect, link, assimilate, associate, unite, discharge, release.

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   n. # delay. Another way to say Quarantine? Synonyms for Quarantine (other words and phrases for Quarantine).

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   Other forms: quarantined; quarantines; quarantining. If you contract something highly infectious, such as pinkeye, please quarantine yourself so that you don’t infect others with it. This means you’ll have to stay in isolation and avoid contact with other people.

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   Synonyms for QUARANTINE: isolate, interdict, restrain, hospitalize, detain, put in isolation, seclude, ban, segregate, confine, cordon-off, exclude, put under quarantine, place in quarantine, ostracize, restrict.

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   Synonyms for QUARANTINES: confines, removes, isolates, separates, restrains, restricts, interns, segregates; Antonyms of QUARANTINES: associates, links, connects, joins, assimilates, unites, discharges, releases.

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    v past p. quarantine. WordReference English Thesaurus © 2024. Synonyms: isolate, put in isolation, seclude, segregate, cordon off, put under quarantine, ostracize, separate, sequester.

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    a period of isolation, esp. of people or animals arriving from abroad, to prevent the spread of disease. She was sent home and put in quarantine. Synonyms. isolation. segregation. solitude. See examples for synonyms. (verb) in the sense of isolate. Definition.