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sequester
[si-kwes-ter]
verb (used with object)
to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
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.
noun
an act or instance of sequestering; separation; isolation.
domestic programs starved for cash by the federal sequester.
sequester
/ ɪˈɛə /
verb
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)
Other 51Թ Forms
- sequestrable adjective
- nonsequestered adjective
- self-sequestered adjective
- unsequestered adjective
- ˈٰܱ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sequester1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sequester1
Example Sentences
It contemplated sequestering seniors at home, without addressing how they would be kept fed and healthy.
“Brad Pitt probably has to stay sequestered in a tower in a castle somewhere — it becomes no fun at all,” said Cassandra Peterson, the actor better known as the macabre movie hostess Elvira.
But now that progressivism has been sequestered in one of the major parties, and Trumpism reigns supreme in the other, the costs of eroding all back stops are on full display.
Urchins devour kelp, which sequesters carbon and serves as shelter and food for a vast array of marine life.
Yondr makes a locking pouch that for years has been used at entertainment events to sequester cellphones and now is being deployed at hundreds of L.A.
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