QUARANTINED Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in separated

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verb

past tense of quarantine

as in confined

to keep (a person or animal) away from others to prevent a disease from spreading The hospital quarantined the infected patients. The dog was immediately quarantined.

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Recent Examples of quarantined

Adjective

To move warm-blooded animals outside of a quarantined area, the animal must be inspected and treated as required by the TAHC and issued a permit or certificate for movement by a TAHC representative. — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 8 June 2026 Grismer said the result of such quarantined conditions is the development of species that exist only there, at times inside of just a single cave. — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026 The quarantined products include 4-packs of Genova Yellowfin Tuna in Olive Oil and single cans of Genova Yellowfin Tuna in Extra Virgin Olive Oil with Sea Salt, both of which were recalled back in February 2025 after the company’s supplier flagged a manufacturing defect on the pull tab. — Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026 The quarantined students were not vaccinated, officials added. — Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2025

Verb

Officials have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring the contacts of the worker, who died of what unconfirmed media reports said could have been pneumonic plague — a less common but severe form of plague that can spread from person to person. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 After she was hospitalized, about 200 colleagues were reportedly quarantined at the research institute for three days, and tested twice daily before being released. — Tucker Reals, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 At the same time, Russian authorities have reportedly quarantined as many as 200 people, which public-health experts say would be an unusual response to an isolated case of pneumonia. — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 7 Oct. 2026 At least one hospital has reportedly been quarantined, contacts have been identified and monitored, and senior public health officials have been sent to the region. — Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026 According to local reports, some 200 people have been put under medical observation, or quarantined, in the Siberian area of Irkutsk. — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026 But clearly, his decision didn’t stick, and in 2020, the pair quarantined together during the pandemic, a revelation that arose when eagle-eyed fans noticed their social media content had identical backgrounds. — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026 To prepare for their big move, the bears quarantined for a month, research base officials said. — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026 Already, in South Africa, an ostrich flock that survives bird flu would only be quarantined and rigorously tested for reinfection, not slaughtered. — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantined

Adjective

In this tense, uneasy landscape, a separated couple, Natalie and Asher, reunite to take their child, Logan, on a trip to tour colleges in both territories.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Held at Henry and Stacey Winkler‘s home, the event highlighted the organization co-founded by Reinis, which focuses on separated families in border cities.

— Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of separated

Verb

Not one confined to a single house, summit, or handful of world leaders.

— Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
The district judge confined Biddy and most of the Black children in the county jail, ostensibly for their own protection from their unscrupulous enslaver.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of confined

Adjective

The ring was from Alabama’s Burrell-Slater High School, a segregated school for Black students that closed in 1969 amid racial integration.

— Sydney Page, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026
In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education ordered the city’s Asian students to be assigned to their own, segregated school.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of segregated

Verb

Noem was appointed special envoy for the Shield of the Americas in March, after she was removed as homeland security secretary amid mounting scrutiny of her management of the department and the influence of her adviser, Corey Lewandowski.

— Olivia Gazis, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
According to the Holy See Press Office, doctors removed the lower lobe of the pontiff's right lung during a procedure that lasted approximately 90 minutes.

— Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of removed

Adjective

Big Brother 4 The first season with a sequestered jury (sorry, Danielle Reyes), Big Brother 4 was also the first installment in which players with a history outside of the house played together.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
The trial was a madly raucous media event, requiring many weeks and a sequestered jury.

— Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2026

Definition of sequestered

Verb

Whiting also interned with the campaign of a Parliament candidate while studying abroad in London.

— Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
Peyton Stewart was a 21-year-old international business major who grew up with her sister in Westwood, New Jersey, studied abroad in London and interned at TikTok.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of interned

Adjective

Scattered to isolated rain will begin as soon as this morning as warm air begins to move in ahead of the cold front today.

— Ron Smiley, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
NemoClaw operates in an isolated sandbox, so users can leverage its ability to write code, consult the web, and use apps without worrying a malfunction will compromise live systems.

— Shubham Agarwal, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of isolated

Verb

Users were likely restricted from properly spelling out such words because, by design, the platform prevents emoji from being used more than once in reaction to a post.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Remember, Googlebooks are restricted to running Android apps, which generally aren't as fully featured as their PC and Mac counterparts.

— Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026

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