Quarantine is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUARANTINE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to detain in or exclude by quarantine
• put (a person or animal) in quarantine
• 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.
• place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons
NOUN:
• a time of compulsory isolation or detention to prevent spread of contagion or infection
• a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed
• A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.
• 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.
• The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.
• enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
• isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a period of 40 days

Words related to QUARANTINE

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Words that contain QUARANTINE

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How to use QUARANTINE in a sentence

• By some manoeuvring Orde succeeded in slipping him through the improvised quarantine without discovery.
• I confess I am still somewhat in the same predicament myself, although I have already been twenty-four hours in Quarantine.
• But there is no food within the Quarantine except a patch of green wheat, and a well in the limestone rock.
• Perhaps he is content to rest his claims upon the memory of our first Quarantine dinner.
• At the end of the bridge, we were met by one of the Quarantine officers, who preceded us, taking care that we touched nobody in the streets, to the Quarantine building.
• By far the greater number of ships do not lie here, but in the quarantine harbour.
• But no boat would go to Crete, because the quarantine on the return was not merely rigorous but merciless, and exaggerate to an incredible severity.
• The putting us in quarantine was a monstrous injustice.
• Richard Bayley is the person to whom New York is chiefly indebted for its quarantine laws.
• And he kept me by another trick, pretending a quarantine.
• He read with amazed and offended eyes that he was temporarily in temper quarantine.
• So Finn went straight from quarantine at Plymouth to the best home he had ever known, and to one in which his honored place was absolutely assured to him.
• He bet five hundred even that one of us, at least, would break quarantine within the next twenty-four hours, and, of course, that settled it.
• Then I shipped back as third cook on a Norwegian tramp that blew up her boiler two miles below Quarantine.
• There was already a bill on the table to do away with the quarantine duties, which the committee on foreign trade had proposed to lay on the community at large.
• All three of us talked the matter of quarantine freely as we rode along, yet no one ventured any proposition looking to an agreement as to who should go on the diplomatic mission.
• This was just what the quarantine captain wanted, and the dove of peace began to shake its plumage.
• We had contributed one hundred dollars to the general quarantine fund, and had otherwise made ourselves popular with all classes in the brief time at our command.
• Possibly this was fortunate, for before I had ridden one third the distance to the quarantine camp, I met a cavalcade of nearly a dozen men from the isolated herds.
• He was cautious in his remarks, but clearly intimated that had there been no other cattle in competition for delivery on this award, there might have been no quarantine.
• A land quarantine was established around the city, to protect the provinces.
• One evening she was in difficulties about the quarantine, which was enforced that year on the Italian frontier.
• I went to the police immediately with my passport, and found that one of our five days of quarantine had been comfortably gotten rid of at Thirlemont.
• I was not surprised when, on arriving at Quarantine, I was handed a telegram from General Miles.
• The authorities of Victoria at once ordered her to quarantine for twenty-four days.
• If it be a plague, it is such a plague that the precautions of the most severe quarantine ought to be established against it.
• The plague is still in Jerusalem, so that we must keep ourselves in quarantine.
• We have been in quarantine here seven days, as there is no plague north of this.

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