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US
/sɪˈkwɛstɝ/
]
[ UK /siːkwˈɛstɐ/ ]
[ UK /siːkwˈɛstɐ/ ]
VERB
-
take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
The FBI seized the drugs
The police confiscated the stolen artwork
The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment -
set apart from others
The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on -
undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
The cations were sequestered -
requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
the estate was sequestered -
keep away from others
He sequestered himself in his study to write a book
How To Use sequester In A Sentence
- What was supposed to be a sequestered monastic retreat became a hive of modern American productive activity.
- The jury were sequestered during the trial.
- Eventually he sequestered himself in a tower on Mt. Soledad, overlooking La Jolla, and wrote book after book after book.
- 'Resdved, That the commissioners for coqapoundiog be Im - powered and required to seise and sequester all the estate, real and personal, of the said Lord Craven, and to receive the rents, Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical
- Yet he himself was a middle-class intellectual who disdained the working class and sequestered himself for decades inside the British Library in lieu of direct observation of the conditions he railed against.
- That runs counter to the finding of the judge that he has realisable assets in a certain amount in excess of those sums which have been sequestered.
- If he was wealthy and well loved, he could sequester himself in his own home. HERE BE DRAGONS
- Nothing could be more English than the sequestered village near Bath where she lives and works.
- A borderline alcoholic with a severe addiction to painkillers, he maintains a live-in girlfriend in the city under the guise of ‘working late’ at the office, while sequestering his wife and kid in the suburbs.
- It is probable that this remote and sequestered place was used in latter times for the celebration of Mass, when the Romish religion was not publicly tolerated.