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US
/ˈkwɔɹənˌtaɪnd, ˈkwɔɹənˌtind/
]
[ UK /kwˈɒɹɑːntˌiːnd/ ]
[ UK /kwˈɒɹɑːntˌiːnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
under forced isolation especially for health reasons
isolated patients
a quarantined animal
How To Use quarantined In A Sentence
- Until results of the biological test are satisfactory, the sterilizer should be quarantined.
- Another no-mates, quarantined island where they gyre and gambol long and hard and in public.
- The property has been quarantined and all animals will be tested.
- A diphtheritic patient should be quarantined, and everything connected with the sick room thoroughly disinfected. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
- We need an immediate ban on the creation of new virtual animals, cute or otherwise, and existing ones will have to either be quarantined on an unconnected server or burnt in a big insanitary heap of pixels.
- During the past few months the city papers have referred to St. Vincent as the leprosy town, Hallock was referred to as the pauper district; we have been advertised as the refuge of tramps and quarantined on account of glanders*; but last of all and worst of all Bro, W-- --- has commenced pelting us with poetry, and SUCH poetry! "...Leprosy Town..."
- The farm's 12,000 chickens were destroyed and farms within two miles were quarantined.
- No Karly, that’s when the government lies to you and spends your tax dollars to promote and execute an illegal invasion of another country, and when citizens try to protest, they’re put in quarantined zones. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 30, 2010
- The individuals quarantined may in each case be perfectly healthy, but the suspicion that they are harbouring disease provokes the application of quarantine procedures.
- So now my poor little 6 year old and I are quarantined in our home.