Dictionary Entry
quarantine
quarantine is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A space of forty days; -- used of Lent. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 22 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.
- 2noun
Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed.
- 3noun
The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.
- 4transitive verb
To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine.
- 5noun
isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
- 6noun
enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
- 7verb
place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons
"My dog was quarantined before he could live in England"
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