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sequestered

[si-kwes-ter]

verb (used with object)

to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.

to remove or separate.

Law. to remove (property) temporarily from the possession of the owner; seize and hold, as the property and income of a debtor, until legal claims are satisfied.

International Law. to requisition, hold, and control (enemy property).

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English sequestren < Latin sequestrāre to put in hands of a trustee, derivative of sequester trustee, depositary

Related forms

se·ques·tra·ble, adjective

non·se·ques·tered, adjective

self-se·ques·tered, adjective

un·se·ques·tered, adjective

Synonyms
1, 2. isolate.

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Example Sentences

The conventional wisdom is that it will be sequestered underground.

So roughly half of the paper in our bookcases is sequestered carbon dioxide.

Coal stations would be permitted if their emissions could be sequestered underground.

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The conventional wisdom is that it will be sequestered underground.

So roughly half of the paper in our bookcases is sequestered carbon dioxide.

Coal stations would be permitted if their emissions could be sequestered underground.

Sequestered in a narrow sliver of society, people may develop or maintain intolerance of those outside their ilk.

They know the energy obtained from sequestered carbon is less than the energy needed to sequester it.

But it's not because they're sequestered in a rural area.

Also, the jury is not sequestered until deliberations, opening them to the inflated media coverage of a trial.

Landowners fear their fields and orchards will be sequestered for the fence-building.

He sequestered her in his hole, and they immediately curled up together and started a courtship.

Finding a small amount of old carbon does not mean the bulk of biochar remains sequestered.

Uniformed men work dutifully to execute the sequestered engineers' wishes.

And computer use at home, of course, is not restricted unless a jury is sequestered.

So a relatively small proportion eventually winds up as being sequestered.

Lepers were usually shunned and sequestered in leper colonies.

There's no idle chatter among employees, because each person is sequestered behind a solid-core heavyweight door.

Jurors in those cases could avoid being sequestered only with the agreement of the judge and all parties to the case.

Only a small, sequestered breeding stock is allowed to remain diploid.

The men set out on foot into the hills, searching for sequestered poppies.

If he does not do so his citizenship rights will be suspended and his properly and holdings will be sequestered.

These medical cartels sequestered oppressive monopoly power and wealth using the fulcrum of the state itself.

The jurors adjourned without reaching a verdict tonight and were sequestered.

These medical cartels sequestered oppressive monopoly power and wealth using the fulcrum of the state regulation itself.

Wellheads check the temperature and pressure of the sequestered gas.

Expatriates, used to a secure if sequestered life, tried not to think about the tanks parked outside their compounds.

Girls endure their own coming-of-age rite, including being sequestered in a special hut at the time of their first menstruation.

CO2 sequestered into the crust of the earth will eventually leak into the troposphere.

The jury of six civilians and two judges is not sequestered and has access to news media coverage of the case.

Those who are opposed to it simply don't realize how much money the administration had sequestered away in dubious accounts.

The dispute appeared to quiet yesterday but experts said sequestered juries are prone to unpredictability.

If carbon dioxide has been being sequestered from the atmosphere.

It is sequestered inside one of the arched masonry structures under the bridge's main entrance ramp.

Most carbon had been sequestered underground, inaccessible to the biosphere.

Sequestered in little legal capsules in populations too small to guarantee reproduction their early loss is highly probable.

Some researchers believe the sequestered carbon will play an additional role by significantly improving soil fertility.

They will be sequestered until a verdict has been reached.

Of course coal is already sequestered carbon, so leave it where it.

Kelly's lawyers argued that the judge should have sequestered the jury.

Water vapour cannot be treated as a standard greenhouse gas as it can be sequestered as water or ice within days or weeks.

Perelman sequestered himself from the minutiae of academic life and from e-mail and correspondence.

Poindexter today angrily ordered the jury sequestered during its deliberations after two jurors reported contacts.

The dismissed juror was sequestered with the rest of the jury but, as an alternate, had to sit in a separate room.

When the phytoplankton dies and sinks, the carbon will effectively be sequestered in the deep ocean.

He warned that unless jury selection was postponed or the jury was sequestered from the outset.

They were followed by members of radical and religious sects and farmers who settled its sequestered yet fertile plains.

They will be sequestered for the duration of the trial.

By the end of the flight you may have about four pounds of fluid that is sequestered in the tissues.

The police quickly rounded up the witnesses and sequestered them in a building housing the university's office of alumni affairs.

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Word Origin & History

sequester

late 14c., from O.Fr. sequestrer (14c.), from L.L. sequestrare "to place in safekeeping," from L. sequester "trustee, mediator," probably originally "follower," related to sequi "to follow" (see sequel). Meaning "seize by authority, confiscate" is first attested 1510s.

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"When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment."

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