sequester
sequester is a 9-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
- transitive verb. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
- transitive verb. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- transitive verb. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
- intransitive verb. To withdraw; to retire.
- intransitive verb. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
- noun. Sequestration; separation.
- noun. A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
- noun. Same as Sequestrum.
- verb. set apart from others
"The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
- verb. keep away from others
"He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"
- verb. undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
"The cations were sequestered"
- verb. take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
"The FBI seized the drugs"
"The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"
- verb. requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
"the estate was sequestered"
Synonyms
isolate, sequestrate, seclude, withdraw, attach, confiscate, impound, seize
Common word forms
sequesters, sequestered, sequestering, sequesterment
Words from these letters
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