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QUARANTINES

11 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 22 pts

QUARANTINES is a valid 11-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 22 in Super Big Boggle.

QUARANTINES root QUARANTINE-s

Word family

QUARANTINE 11 QUARANTINING 11 QUARANTINED-d 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableA period of 40 days, particularly
  2. countablehistoricaluncountableThe 40-day period during which a widow is entitled to remain in her deceased husband's home while any dower is collected and returned.
  3. countablehistoricaluncountableThe 40-day period of isolation required after 1448 at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations.
  4. countablehistoricaluncountableA 40-day period formerly imposed by the French king upon warring nobles during which they were forbidden from exacting revenge or continuing to fight.
  5. countableuncountableA period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
    • The tourists were put in quarantine to ensure none of them would be able to spread the plague.
  6. countablefigurativelyuncountableA similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
  7. countableuncountableA place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
  8. countablefigurativelyuncountableA blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
  9. countablefigurativelyuncountableAn isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc.
  10. countablefigurativelyuncountableThe program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
verb
  1. transitiveTo place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
    • Venice began quarantining incoming ships for 40 days in 1448 to prevent further outbreaks of bubonic plague.
  2. intransitiveTo enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
    • International travelers must quarantine themselves at their own expense in a designated hotel for 14 days upon arrival.
  3. intransitiveobsoleteTo impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.
  4. figurativelytransitiveSynonym of isolate more generally.
    • J.F.K. "quarantined" Cuba rather than blockading it to avoid needless escalation of the conflict.
  5. figurativelytransitiveSynonym of restrict.
name
  1. obsoleteAlternative letter-case form of Quarantine: the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho.