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    quar·an·tine
    [ˈkwôrənˌtēn]
    noun
    quarantine (noun) · quarantines (plural 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" · "a six-week quarantine" · "quarantine laws"
      Opposite:
    verb
    quarantine (verb) · quarantines (third person present) · quarantined (past tense) · quarantined (past participle) · quarantining (present participle)
    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" · "they had to quarantine infected households"
      Similar:
      keep apart
      keep in solitude
      cordon off
      form a ring around
      put a cordon sanitaire around
      close off
      fence off
      rope off
      screen off
      tape off
      curtain off
      partition off
      Opposite:
      • 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"
    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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  2. : a restraint upon the activities or communication of persons or the transport of goods that is designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests
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    quarantine noun (PEOPLE OR ANIMALS) Add to word list [ C or U ] a specific period of time in which a person or animal that has a disease, or may have one, must stay or be kept away from others in order to prevent the spread of the disease:
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    Quarantine is a state or place of isolation for a person or animal who may have come in contact with contagious diseases. The period of isolation lowers the chance that person or animal could transfer illnesses to others.
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    quarantine, the separation and restriction of travel of humans or other animals that may have come into contact with an infectious disease. Individuals remain under quarantine until it is deemed certain that they are free of infection.
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    a period of isolation or detention, esp of persons or animals arriving from abroad, to prevent the spread of disease, usually consisting of the maximum known incubation period of the suspected disease
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