self-quarantine

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Isolation by avoiding physical contact with other individuals, especially in order to reduce the transmission of a contagious disease. countable,uncountable
    — We apply this model to a large urban area (9 million people) and evaluate the effect of situational awareness (early detection and response) and several response measures, such as mass vaccination, quarantine, closure, mass-transit shutdown, and voluntary self-quarantine on the spread of the epidemic and on the total number of casualties.
动词 v.
  1. To refrain from physical contact with other individuals, especially in order to reduce the transmission of a contagious disease. intransitive
    — He said that he became sick with relatively mild symptoms about a week ago and self-quarantined at his home.

词形变化

self-quarantines present,singular,third-person self-quarantining participle,present self-quarantined participle,past self-quarantined past self-quarantines plural

词源

词源 1
From self- + quarantine.
词源 2
From self- + quarantine.
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