quarantine

10 letters · noun · scores 3,000 in SpellHuntr

noun

enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease

verb

place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons

Quarantine in a sentence

The tourists were put in quarantine to ensure none of them would be able to spread the plague.

Forty days, called the King's quarantain, were allowed the friends or relations of a principal in a private war to grant or find security.

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