sequester

1. 1

   To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.

   • The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
2. 2

   To separate in order to store.

   • The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.
3. 3

   To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.

   • I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.
4. 4

   To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.

5. 5

   To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.

6. 6

   To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.

   • c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
7. 7

   To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.UStransitive

   • The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
8. 8

   To seize and hold enemy property.

9. 9

   To withdraw; to retire.intransitive

   • to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
10. 10

    To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.dated

syn. segregate

1. 1

   sequestration; separation

   • A sequester from liberty , fasting , and prayer
2. 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. 3

   A sequestrum.