Quarantined

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quarantine \Quar`an*tine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quarantined};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Quarantining}.]
     To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place,
     without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious
     disease; to put under, or in, quarantine.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  quarantined
       adj : under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a
             quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" [syn: {isolated}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "quarantined":
     apart, barred, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound,
     cabined, caged, cloistered, closed-in, confined, cooped, cordoned,
     cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, detached, enclosed,
     fenced, hedged, hemmed, immured, imprisoned, in a backwater,
     incarcerated, insular, isolated, jailed, leaguered, mewed,
     out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, paled, penned, pent-up, railed,
     remote, removed, restrained, retired, roped off, sealed off,
     secluded, segregated, separate, separated, shut off, shut-in,
     unfrequented, unvisited, walled, walled-in, withdrawn