sequester
/si'kwestə/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To isolate or set apart: To separate or remove something or someone from others, often for a specific purpose or reason.
- To seize or confiscate by legal authority: To take temporary possession of property, often by court order or legal right, as security or due to a dispute.
- To undergo chemical sequestration: To combine chemically with an ion to form a stable compound, often to remove it from a system.
Usage and Examples
- Verb (To isolate):
- The judge ordered the jury to be sequestered during the high-profile trial.
- To focus on her novel, she decided to sequester herself in a remote cabin.
- Verb (To seize legally):
- The court can sequester assets during a bankruptcy proceeding.
- Authorities sequestered the documents as evidence in the investigation.
- Verb (Chemical process):
- Certain plants can sequester heavy metals from contaminated soil.
- The goal is to sequester carbon dioxide to mitigate climate change.
Advanced Usage
- "to sequester oneself": To deliberately isolate oneself from others or from society.
- The artist sequestered himself in his studio for months to complete the masterpiece.
- "sequestered assets": Property or funds taken into legal custody, often until a claim is resolved.
- The sequestered funds were held in an escrow account pending the lawsuit's outcome.
Variants and Related Words
- Sequestered (adjective): Isolated, hidden away.
- They found a beautiful, sequestered beach.
- Sequestering (noun/gerund): The act or process of sequestering.
- The sequestering of the jury was necessary for a fair trial.
- Sequesterable (adjective): Capable of being sequestered.
- The judge determined the property was sequesterable under the law.
- Sequesterment (noun): The state of being sequestered; isolation.
- His long sequesterment from public life fueled rumors.
Synonyms
- Isolate: To set apart from others.
- Confiscate: To seize private property by authority, often as a penalty.
- Impound: To seize and take legal custody of something.
- Seclude: To keep away from others; to withdraw into solitude.
Related Phrases and Phrasal Verbs
(Note: "Sequester" is not commonly used with particles to form phrasal verbs. Its meanings are typically expressed through the verb itself with prepositions like "from" or "in.") - Sequester from: To isolate or separate from a group or place. - The witness was sequestered from the other witnesses.
Related Idioms
(Note: There are no common idioms centered solely on the word "sequester." Its usage is typically direct and formal.)
Verb
- set apart from others
- The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on
- keep away from others
- He sequestered himself in his study to write a book
- undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
- The cations were sequestered
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- The FBI seized the drugs
- The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment
- The police confiscated the stolen artwork
- requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
- the estate was sequestered