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   quarantine

   /ˈkwɒrəntiːn/

   noun

   • 1. a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that may have been exposed to infectious disease are placed: "horses entering the country must stay in quarantine longer"

   verb

   • 1. place (a person or animal) in quarantine in order to prevent the spread of an infectious disease: "I quarantine all new fish for one month"
   • ▪ remain apart from others for a period of time in order to prevent the transmission of an infectious disease to which one may have been exposed: "we are seeing exponential growth in new cases because people failed to quarantine after travelling abroad"

   Word Origin 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.

   Scrabble Points: 19

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