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verb

Definition of quarantinenext
as in to confine
to keep (a person or animal) away from others to prevent a disease from spreading The hospital quarantined the infected patients. The dog was immediately quarantined.

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noun

as in isolation

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Recent Examples of quarantine
Verb
According to local reports, some 200 people have been put under medical observation, or quarantined, in the Siberian area of Irkutsk. — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026 The company says that if an agent attempts to move outside its software boundary, Sentry can quarantine and stop it in milliseconds. — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2026
Noun
Typically, when a pathogen causes a death or quarantine, local public health authorities test the pathogen and share the genetic code sequencing so it can be analyzed and risk levels can be assessed by infectious disease experts internationally. — Renée Onque, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026 The hospital where she was treated, and where her roughly 200 close recent contacts were evaluated, was then partially shut down under quarantine conditions, Russian authorities said. — Tucker Reals, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for quarantine
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantine
  1. confine
  2. isolation
  3. remove
  4. segregation
  5. separate
  6. containment
  7. isolate
  8. seclusion
Verb
  • No longer confined to gambling dens and brothel districts, yakuza muscled their way into other businesses, some legal, some not.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Stepping onto the train felt surreal, an experience previously confined to my trips aboard.
    — Sophia Dyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of confine
Noun
  • Additional safety features include gas detection, electrical isolation monitoring, as well as technology designed to prevent battery failures from spreading between cells.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Likewise, Antarctic workers have been studied to learn about the psychological aspects of long-term isolation and small-group dynamics in stressful situations, another key aspect of space exploration.
    — Daniella McCahey, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of isolation
Verb
  • The woman contacted her 72-year-old father, who came out of the house to remove Gonzalez.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • While no service can promise to remove all your data from the internet, a data removal service can monitor and automate the process of removing your information from hundreds of sites continuously over a longer period.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of remove
Noun
  • Growing up under the harsh system of segregation influenced Pillay's interest in human rights and the law.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Growing up under the harsh system of segregation influenced Pillay’s interest in human rights and the law.
    — Stefanie Dazio, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of segregation
Verb
  • The mediator does an intense workout taking the offers and counteroffers between the parties, up and down an elegant staircase that separates the teams.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
  • This allows the researchers to produce hydrogen and epoxide without a membrane separating the electrodes.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of separate
Noun
  • As health officials monitor those in isolation, the Siberian town is waiting to see if the containment walls will hold.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The Dome Fire had grown to 6,760 acres with 40% containment over the weekend, with slightly more than 1,000 personnel assigned, per updates from California Interagency Incident Management Team 4.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of containment
Verb
  • One of the other things that Claude noticed was that these array of associated reverse transcriptases seem to be isolated to jumbo phages, which have very large genomes for bacteriophage.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Adapted from Hsiao Li-hung’s novel, the film follows Thik-hông (Lu), an orphan who marries into a wealthy family, is widowed young and sees her son sent away to Japan, leaving her isolated behind the walls of the family estate.
    — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of isolate
Noun
  • Go for a swim in the rooftop pool up on the 16th floor (the other pool is reserved for hotel residents), and reserve a private cabana for extra seclusion.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The seller described the property as a compromise-free version of city living and rural seclusion.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026
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