QUARANTINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quarantined mean? 

• QUARANTINED (adjective)
  The adjective QUARANTINED has 1 sense:

1. under forced isolation especially for health reasons

  Familiarity information: QUARANTINED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUARANTINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Under forced isolation especially for health reasons

Synonyms:

isolated; quarantined

Context example:

isolated patients

Similar:

segregated; unintegrated (separated or isolated from others or a main group)

 Context examples 

For the study, 201 healthy adults were quarantined, experimentally exposed to a virus that causes a common cold and monitored for five days for the development of a respiratory illness.

(How Parents' Separation Impacts Adult Kids, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)