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quarantine (verb), quarantines; quarantined; quarantining
To keep someone, or groups of people, or an animal, or animals in obligatory or enforced separation or isolation from others as a sanitary precaution to prevent the spread of a contagious disease: "A river cruise boat had a hundred passengers on board and forty of them came down with an intestinal-viral infection and were taken to hospitals while the others were quarantined aboard the boat and not allowed to leave."

"Martin's dog became very ill and the veteranarian immediately quarantined her."

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