Definitions for quarantine

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quarantine quar·an·tine

Spelling: [kwawr-uh n-teen, kwor-, kwawr-uh n- Quarantine is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 377 anagrams from letters in quarantine (aaeinnqrtu).

Definitions for quarantine

noun

1. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
2. a period, originally 40 days, of detention or isolation imposed upon ships, persons, animals, or plants on arrival at a port or place, when suspected of carrying some infectious or contagious disease.
3. a system of measures maintained by governmental authority at ports, frontiers, etc., for preventing the spread of disease.
4. the branch of the governmental service concerned with such measures.
5. a place or station at which such measures are carried out, as a special port or dock where ships are detained.
6. the detention or isolation enforced.
7. the place, especially a hospital, where people are detained.
8. a period of 40 days.
9. social, political, or economic isolation imposed as a punishment, as in ostracizing an individual or enforcing sanctions against a foreign state.

verb (used with object)

1. to put in or subject to quarantine.
2. to exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons.

Origin of quarantine

1600-10; Italian quarantina, variant of quarantena, orig. Upper Italian (Venetian): period of forty days, group of forty, derivative of quaranta forty ≪ Latin quadrāgintā

Examples for quarantine

Adding an extra three weeks of quarantine on to every trip makes it hard to fit this coverage into our lives.

Could you persuade them to let us remain in 'quarantine,' then, for a few days?

But the quarantine, lifted just 10 days in, was a colossal failure.

For me, I'm sick of havin' folks act like we was a quarantine station.

Entire towns or neighborhoods could not be targeted for quarantine, Hodge said.

The ship only got to the quarantine ground that day, but in the morning we went to sea.

But that is impossible, unless you have broken through the quarantine.

AIDS insanity:  When running for the US Senate in 1992, Huckabee called for a quarantine of people who had AIDS.

The quarantine had either failed by then, or did shortly after.

I left the Plato at the quarantine ground, going to the Sailor's Retreat.