quarantined
- adjective
- /ˈkwɔrəntiːnd/
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en cuarentena
- After testing positive for the disease, he was quarantined to avoid infecting others.
I hope y'all are quarantined and safe and happy.
- I hope y'all are quarantined and safe and happy.
- So this was the quarantined cruise ship in Yokohama Port, Japan.
- What do you do with your time since you're you're quarantined?
- Like, I might try to learn a language while I'm here, while I'm quarantined.
- Now while quarantined, Ryan and I have been using this time to do something special.
- He'd been a high school teacher and he's quarantined in his house during the COVID during an academic.
- And again, we'll see where this goes and I know I'm fucking quarantined and bored as fuck, so let's do this shit, see?
Examples
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Multiple Fox News executives have been quarantined due to a COVID case on their charter plane.
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You're quarantined in a pandemic, trying to get work done and trying to keep your house peaceful.
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And then we move in to be quarantined in this place.
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No part of the world can be quarantined any longer.
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Now while quarantined, Ryan and I have been using this time to do something special.
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I hope y'all are quarantined and safe and happy.
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So this was the quarantined cruise ship in Yokohama Port, Japan.
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And because we're still technically in lockdown, not for much longer, but we are still technically being quarantined to an extent.
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The passengers were quarantined on the cruise ship to prevent the spread of the virus.
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During the outbreak, many people were quarantined at home to ensure everyone's safety.
Synonyms
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4.1
Kept away from other people to stop disease spreading
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Kept apart from others to stop a disease from spreading
Kept away from other people in a quiet private place
Kept in one small space and unable to leave
Antonyms
How Isolated
Surface Forms
Morphology
quarantined = quarantine (transparent) = quarantine + ed
Direct past-participial/adjectival formation from the verb 'quarantine' denoting someone placed in isolation; meaning is readily inferred by learners familiar with 'quarantine'.
Etymology
The word quarantined comes from the Italian word quaranta, which means 'forty', because in old times ships had to wait forty days before people could land during a plague. So to be quarantined is to be kept apart to stop the spread of disease.