What is the meaning of the word "quarantine"?

Definitions:

  1. isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease, sometimes forced by law copy to clipboard noun
    • My dog had to go into isolation when we moved country. copy to clipboard
  2. to place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons copy to clipboard verb
    • My dog was quarantined before it could live in our new country. copy to clipboard

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