quarantine is a valid English word

Scrabble validity: valid ( international - Sowpods, US - Twl06 )
iScramble validity: valid
QuickWords validity: valid

Meanings

Noun (COUNTABLE)

Singular Plural
quarantine quarantines
    A period of 40 days, particularly
    A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
    • The tourists were put in quarantine to ensure none of them would be able to spread the plague.
    (figurative) A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.

Verb

Verb Present simple 3sg Present participle Past simple Past participle
quarantine quarantines quarantining quarantined quarantined
    (transitive) To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
    • Venice began quarantining incoming ships for 40 days in 1448 to prevent further outbreaks of bubonic plague.
    (intransitive) To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
    • International travelers must quarantine themselves at their own expense in a designated hotel for 14 days upon arrival.
    (intransitive obsolete) To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.

Proper noun

    (Christainity obsolete) : the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho.

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