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.
Related Words
Relevance
Dissimilar Words
as in isolation
Related Words
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of quarantine
ABC News, 16 June 2026
Santa Clara County’s Public Health Department urged unvaccinated people who may have been exposed to measles to quarantine to help prevent the virus from spreading rapidly through the population.
—Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
semafor.com, 19 June 2026
James Peter was the most recent and only new arrival, now a week into solo quarantine.
—Ramy Inocencio, CBS News, 17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for quarantine
Verb
Perryman needs to be quarantined to protect both herself and her community, Spencer said.
—ABC News, 16 June 2026
Santa Clara County’s Public Health Department urged unvaccinated people who may have been exposed to measles to quarantine to help prevent the virus from spreading rapidly through the population.
—Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
Noun
Anger is growing in Kenya over his support for the construction of a US Ebola quarantine facility, with his critics accusing him of capitulating to American interests over those of Kenyan citizens.
—semafor.com, 19 June 2026
James Peter was the most recent and only new arrival, now a week into solo quarantine.
—Ramy Inocencio, CBS News, 17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for quarantine
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantine
Verb
-
Aquatic creatures might be confined to their lake or river.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
21 June 2026
-
Once largely confined to therapeutic and clinical settings, the term now appears everywhere from social media feeds and podcasts to conversations about menopause, recovery and longevity.—
Meggen Harris,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
Noun
-
The irony is not lost on her; the same interconnected world that allows Korean dramas to find global audiences has also made genuine isolation almost impossible.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
-
The Aura report finds that as the summer wears on, one in three children score low on Aura's Digital Wellbeing Index, which correlates digital behaviors with a range of health parameters, including sleep, mood, isolation and their ability to regulate emotions.—
Rhitu Chatterjee,
NPR,
19 June 2026
Verb
-
Propellers can be particularly burdensome because rotors often need to be removed, cleaned and reinstalled, requiring some real elbow grease.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
23 June 2026
-
The pool is being cleaned twice annually, with 10 to 15 large truckloads of debris removed at each cleaning, the National Park Service reports.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
Noun
-
The story does not flinch from the realities of segregation, including the violence that the family faced moving into white neighborhoods in Fort Worth in the 1950s, but there is more hope than fear, more faith in the power of righteousness to defeat injustice, in its pages.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
-
Owens was begrudgingly congratulated by Hitler, but neither he nor the other Black medalists were ever even acknowledged by Roosevelt, who had also refused to endorse a boycott of the Games—an effort led by Black and Jewish organizations that opposed both Nazism and American segregation.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
19 June 2026
Verb
-
By 58% to 42%, those surveyed said Americans were mostly separated by different values, not bound by shared ones.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
-
De la Espriella strikes reassuring tone With only a few hundred thousand votes separating the two candidates, De la Espriella used his victory speech to try to calm his critics.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
Noun
-
This low-pressure environment reduces the physical risk of a containment breach compared to high-pressure water systems.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
19 June 2026
-
That’s why containment is becoming the requirement.—
Scott Alldridge,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
Verb
-
Firefighters have also isolated lithium-ion batteries and have hoselines dousing them.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
20 June 2026
-
To isolate the more desirable U-235, scientists strip away its more stable cousin, U-238, through a process known as enrichment.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2026
Noun
-
In the seclusion of The Rabbit Hole, the members-only speakeasy in the building’s second floor, members could purchase a Spirit of Champions Limited Edition decanter for $1,700 and select a country of representation that the Mexican artisans translated on-site into a one-of-one keepsake.—
Lilian Raji,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
-
Lexie Zhao & Haina Zhou Drawn from seclusion to serve the realm in chaos, LV An journeys to Luoyang with his wife XU – into ruin.—
Jenny S. Li,
Variety,
17 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Quarantine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarantine. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
