sequester

Meaning

Verb

1. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
2. To separate in order to store.
3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
4. To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
5. To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
6. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
7. (US, transitive) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
8. To seize and hold enemy property.
9. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
10. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

Noun

1. sequestration; separation
2. A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
3. A sequestrum.

Synonyms

sequestrate

isolate

confiscate

impound

seclude

separate

seize

attach

segregate

quarantine

insulate

keep apart

set apart

sunder

sequestration

confiscation

distrain

disunite

withdraw

forfeit

dissociate

expel

expropriate

expropriation

fire

🔥

force out

foreclose

foreclosure

garnishee

intern

know

mark

partition

partition off

remove

resolve

rope in

secern

seizure

send down

separate off

separate out

sever

shut off

split

stash

stratify

take over

take possession of

uncouple

Translations

séquestrer

confisquer

isoler

secuestrar

isolar

separar

sequestrare

absondern

embargar

ayırmak

aïllar

sepono

afzonderen

confiscar

mettre sous séquestre

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɪˈkwɛs.tə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sequestren

In summary

From Middle English sequestren (verb) and sequestre (noun), from Old French sequestrer, from Late Latin sequestrō (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“follow”).