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Word: Quarantine
Speech Type: Noun
late 15th century (in sense ‘place where Jesus fasted for forty days’): from medieval Latin quarentena and Anglo-Norman French quarenteine, quarenteinne. The modern sense is from Italian quarantina ‘forty days’, from quaranta ‘forty’, and dates from the mid 17th century
ˈkwɒrəntiːn
a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that may have been exposed to infectious disease are placed
Short Definition:isolation in which people or animals that have been exposed to disease are placed
Examples:- horses entering the country must stay in quarantine longer
- a six-week quarantine
- quarantine laws
Word: Quarantine
Speech Type: Verb
ˈkwɒrəntiːn
place (a person or animal) in quarantine in order to prevent the spread of an infectious disease
Short Definition:place person in quarantine
Examples:- I quarantine all new fish for one month
- they had to quarantine infected households
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