| 单词 | quarantined |
| 释义 | quarantined (once / 24831 pages) adj Someone who's quarantined is kept safely away from other people because of their health. Often, a quarantined patient has an infectious disease or a compromised immune system. Animals and people are sometimes quarantined for their safety or the safety of others. A quarantined puppy might be too young for vaccinations, and need to be kept away from other dogs until it's older. A quarantined patient might have to stay in isolation if they're vulnerable to infection. In the 1500s, quarantine was the period a widow was permitted to stay in her dead husband's house — forty days, to be specific, from the Latin quadraginta, "forty." WORD FAMILYquarantine: quarantined, quarantines, quarantining USAGE EXAMPLESI suppose, but not many of us felt “quarantined” in 2000 from the impact of Florida’s electoral mayhem. Washington Post(Dec 25, 2016) After the elk were quarantined to determine whether they were disease-free, they were transported to the Tomblin Wildlife Management Area in Logan County. Washington Times(Dec 19, 2016) Those emails were quarantined by a filter meant to detect spam and potentially malicious traffic, RNC officials said. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) adj under forced isolation especially for health reasons a quarantined animal Syn isolated segregated, unintegrated separated or isolated from others or a main group |
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