Self-isolate

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To quarantine or isolate oneself from others, especially in order to avoid spreading a communicable disease.

    "However, in all cases, if you cancel and do not wish to rebook you lose the money. To me this seems rather unfair if, for example, the passenger is being told to self-isolate owing to age for several months and cannot select a future date."

Synonyms

All synonyms
self-quarantine

Example

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"British officials announced that anyone who has visited northern Italy in the past two weeks should “self-isolate” at home, if he or she develops flu-like symptoms."

Etymology

From self- + isolate.

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