Crossword-Solution: QUARANTINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quarantine | n. | A space of forty days; -- used of Lent. |
| Quarantine | n. | Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed. |
| Quarantine | n. | The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized. |
| Quarantine | v. t. | 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. |
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Sentences with QUARANTINE (5)
When all was in order for our departure we walked down to the precincts of the quarantine establishment, and here awaited us a “compromised” {1} officer of the Austrian Government, who lives in a state of perpetual excommunication.
Until I have that comforting assurance, I shall place a quarantine upon everything which could conceivably be offensive to you.
The consort, 'Wolfville', upon which they had originally taken passage, arrived in Quebec before them, and lay in the stream, flying the yellow flag of quarantine.
However, the family were obliged to begin their quarantine anew on the report of the visitors or examiner, though their former quarantine wanted but a few days of being finished.
You'll never see it again." XV The steamer "Santiago," carrying "passengers, bullion, and coffee," was headed to pass Porto Rico by midnight, when she would be free of land until she anchored at the quarantine station of the green hills of Staten Island.
Quotes with QUARANTINE (3)
I had a dream about you last night.. You were playing with chicken livers and told me everyone was in quarantine.
Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!
When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.
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Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1955–2015).