quarantine
/ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tin/noun, verb3 syllables
Quarantine means: enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease.
Synonyms for quarantine5
What does quarantine mean?3
noun
1
enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
2
isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
verb
1
place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons“My dog was quarantined before he could live in England”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Quarantine in a sentence
- We've been asked to self-quarantine for two weeks.CK
- Britt made a video documenting each day of her quarantine so far.Hybrid
- How many suicides will this quarantine be responsible for?Ooneykcall
- The lights within the quarantine zone went out.Amastan
- The government forced everyone to go to the quarantine facility.Amastan
- The Chinese authorities are very aggressive in enforcing quarantine on people with coronavirus.Amastan
- In China, a hotel used to quarantine people with the virus collapsed Sunday.Hybrid
- The contagious persons were placed in quarantine.karloelkebekio
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of quarantine
as a noun
- plural
- quarantines
as a verb
- past tense
- quarantined
- present participle
- quarantining
- third-person singular
- quarantines
- past participle
- quarantined