quarantined
SayKWOR-uhn-teend/ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tind/UK/ˈkwɒɹ.ən.tiːnd/
- 1Kept away from other people or animals to stop a sickness from spreading.
Like keeping a sick child home from school so the other kids don't catch it.
The quarantined dogs stayed in a separate room at the shelter.
Quarantined families could not leave their homes for two weeks.
Similarisolated, sequestered, segregated, confined
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- 2Past tense and past participle of quarantine. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.
The town quarantined everyone who showed symptoms.
Officials quarantined the sick animals right away.
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quarantined is a form of quarantine
quarantine, verb: To keep a sick person or animal away from others so a disease does not spread. Full entry
- Forms
- quarantinequarantines he/she/itquarantining -ing formquarantined past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- quarantine → quarantined: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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