quarantined Definition

quarantine
noun

1. The isolation of people or animals to prevent the spread of any infectious disease that they could be developing.

Thesaurus: isolation, segregation, detention, separation.
2. The duration or place of such isolation.

verb

quarantined, quarantining
1. To impose such isolation on someone or something; to put (a person or animal) into quarantine.

Thesaurus: isolate, segregate, detain, separate, place apart, restrain, hospitalize.

Etymology: 17c: from Italian quarantina period of 40 days, from quaranta forty.