sequester

Definitions

1. 1transitive 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.

2. 2transitive verb

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

3. 3transitive verb

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

4. 4transitive verb

   To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.

5. 5intransitive verb

   To withdraw; to retire.

6. 6intransitive verb

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

7. 7noun

   Sequestration; separation.

8. 8noun

   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.

9. 9noun

   Same as Sequestrum.

10. 10verb

    set apart from others

    "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"

    Synonyms

    isolatesequestrate
11. 11verb

    keep away from others

    "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"

    Synonyms

    secludesequestratewithdraw
12. 12verb

    undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion

    "The cations were sequestered"

13. 13verb

    take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

    "The FBI seized the drugs"

    "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"

    Synonyms

    attachconfiscateimpoundseize
14. 14verb

    requisition forcibly, as of enemy property

    "the estate was sequestered"