sequester
to keep apart from others; segregate or isolate: The jury was sequestered until a verdict was reached.
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).
to trap (a chemical in the atmosphere or environment) and isolate it in a natural or artificial storage area: There are processes to sequester carbon from a power plant's exhaust gases.Plants can sequester toxins and store them in their tissues.
an act or instance of sequestering; separation; isolation.
sequestration (def. 7): domestic programs starved for cash by the federal sequester.
Origin of sequester
1Other words from sequester
- se·ques·tra·ble, adjective
- non·se·ques·tered, adjective
- self-se·ques·tered, adjective
- un·se·ques·tered, adjective
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How to use sequester in a sentence
First, bubonic (rhymes with pneumonic but is altogether different) is a local infection sequestered in a lymph node.
Bubonic Plague Is Back (but It Never Really Left) | Kent Sepkowitz | November 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe women were sequestered and not allowed to speak with reporters.
Australia Spots Two Objects in the Hunt for MH370 | Lennox Samuels | March 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDeposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was sequestered in highly unusual fashion during his trials this weekend.
The good news, though, is that sequestered in the Ecuadorian embassy, Assange is getting back to his roots.
How Julian Assange Fooled the Media Once Again | Michael Moynihan | April 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd all the while, Washington Republicans and Democrats are standing around mumbling as the defense budget gets sequestered.
The Moment is Now to Stop Iran from Getting the Bomb | David Frum | March 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeThe sequestered spot, a seat beneath a plane tree, with a lonesome arc-lamp shining full upon it, was occupied.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeAt any rate, they petitioned Parliament for the removal of this too ardent fisherman, and he was sequestered accordingly.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. HarperIn two hours they had arrived at the primitive and sequestered town of Alla-hissar.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks | Bracebridge HemyngA week passed on, and next we findOur native tourist come To that sequestered village calledGenasagarnagum.
The Book of Humorous Verse | Various
British Dictionary definitions for sequester
/ (sɪˈkwɛstə) /
to remove or separate
(usually passive) to retire into seclusion
law to take (property) temporarily out of the possession of its owner, esp until the claims of creditors are satisfied or a court order is complied with
international law to requisition or appropriate (enemy property)
Origin of sequester
1Derived forms of sequester
- sequestrable, adjective
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