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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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

When poultry test positive for this strain of bird flu, all nearby farms are quarantined and tested for the virus. — Nat Lash, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2026 The ministry said that 134 of 135 contacts of the original patient have been traced and quarantined and the risk to the general public remains low. — ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026 The property has been quarantined to restrict the movement of poultry and poultry products, and the birds there were depopulated to prevent the disease from spreading. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 Infected flocks are quarantined, and usually the birds are destroyed. — Allison Gibson, Sacbee.com, 15 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 To prepare for their big move, the bears quarantined for a month, research base officials said. — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 28 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

Tokamaks rely partly on electric currents flowing through the plasma to help keep it confined, while stellarators use complex arrangements of external magnetic coils to create a three-dimensional magnetic field.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
However, the issue of government officials and employees using their access to place bets on prediction markets is not confined to the Pentagon.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of confined

Adjective

And now there is reporting that the chancellor’s plan to desegregate our very segregated schools has stalled, and that city payments to childcare providers are so low that many are closing — while the system is supposed to be expanding.

— Ciara Jackson, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026
The 28-year-old Dominican national is allegedly being held in a segregated unit at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, as federal prosecutors seek to remove him from the country, according to the petition.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of segregated

Verb

And immigration courts, which ultimately decide whether someone can be removed from the country, face more significant case backlogs.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
Acton has said that her stepfather repeatedly raped her as a pre-teenage girl and that her family lived in a tent at the time she was removed from their care.

— Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 22 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

Adjective

That night, Pike, her boyfriend, 17-year-old Tadaryl Shipp, and an acquaintance, Shadolla Peterson, 18, lured Slemmer to an isolated area behind the agricultural campus steam plant.

— Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
One of the coolest things happening in hip-hop production right now is the way different isolated microscenes are mining the dance music of the Black diaspora.

— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of isolated

Verb

Experts say their main concern is a possibility that some civil rights of commoner husbands and their children could be restricted as with the royals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
On Wednesday, a federal judge restricted Homeland Security agents from carrying out sweeping field operations aimed at rooting out voter fraud in nine states, including California.

— Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

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