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Synonyms for quarantined

Grammar : Adj
Spell : kwawr-uh n-teen, kwor-, kwawr-uh n-teen, kwor-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwɔr ənˌtin, ˈkwɒr-, ˌkwɔr ənˈtin, ˌkwɒr-

Définition of quarantined

Origin :
  • 1520s, "period of 40 days in which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's house." Earlier quarentyne (15c.), "desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days," from Latin quadraginta "forty," related to quattuor "four" (see four).
  • Sense of "period a ship suspected of carrying disease is kept in isolation" is 1660s, from Italian quarantina giorni, literally "space of forty days," from quaranta "forty," from Latin quadraginta. So called from the Venetian custom of keeping ships from plague-stricken countries waiting off its port for 40 days (first enforced 1377) to assure that no latent cases were aboard. The extended sense of "any period of forced isolation" is from 1670s.
  • adj isolated
Example sentences :
  • I did not wish to be quarantined, and determined on evading it.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • Then we were quarantined for fourteen days—no end of a tiresome business.
  • Extract from : « Hunter's Marjory » by Margaret Bruce Clarke
  • Every case of tonsilitis should be quarantined when there are other children in the house.
  • Extract from : « The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) » by Grant Hague
  • They once quarantined a ship because her captain had had the smallpox when he was a boy.
  • Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • He jumped into the waist of the quarantined barque, and was lost to sight.
  • Extract from : « The Tale of Timber Town » by Alfred Grace
  • If it is smallpox the child would be quarantined with you—that would be unfortunate.
  • Extract from : « What's-His-Name » by George Barr McCutcheon
  • The ship is lying here in the harbor of Naples--quarantined.
  • Extract from : « The Innocents Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • To the day I quarantined him for distemper, she and her son had been inseparable.
  • Extract from : « Buff: A Collie and other dog-stories » by Albert Payson Terhune
  • There was a “pest house” where victims of small pox were quarantined.
  • Extract from : « The Pinos Altos Story » by Dorothy Watson
  • If a person has a dangerous contagious disease, he should be quarantined.
  • Extract from : « Applied Physiology » by Frank Overton

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