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1. a. : to set apart : segregate. sequester a jury. b. : seclude, withdraw. widely spaced homes are forbiddingly grand and sequestered Don Asher. 2. a. : to seize especially by a writ of sequestration. b. : to place (property) in custody especially in sequestration. 3.
SEQUESTERED definition: 1. A sequestered place is peaceful because it is far away from people: 2. A sequestered place is…. Learn more.
verb (used with object) to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude. to remove or separate; banish; exile. to keep apart from others; segregate or isolate: The jury was sequestered until a verdict was reached.
keep away from others. “He sequestered himself in his study to write a book”. synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw. adjourn, retire, withdraw. break from a meeting or gathering. see more. verb. set apart from others. “The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on”.
to take temporary possession of someone's property until they have paid back the money that they borrowed in order to buy it, or until they have obeyed a court order: You sign the acknowledgement of debt now and a few months later your property will be sequestered. LAW.
adjective. kept separate and secluded. “a sequestered jury”. synonyms: segregated, unintegrated. separated or isolated from others or a main group. adjective. providing privacy or seclusion. “sat close together in the sequestered pergola”.
adjective. Removed from others; secluded. Webster's New World. Remote or difficult to get to; isolated. A sequestered village in the mountains. American Heritage. Set apart from or prevented from having from contact with others. A sequestered jury. American Heritage.
To remove or isolate (a chemical, often a gas) from an environment by incorporation, mixing, or insertion under pressure. Plants that sequester toxins from wetlands; plans to sequester carbon dioxide produced by a power plant by injection into an underground aquifer. American Heritage.
Synonyms for SEQUESTERED: isolated, secluded, retired, apart, outlying, nowhere, out-of-the-way, secret; Antonyms of SEQUESTERED: adjacent, contiguous, adjoining, close, near, nearby, nigh, integrated.
1. Remote or difficult to get to; isolated: a sequestered village in the mountains. 2. Set apart from or prevented from having from contact with others: a sequestered jury. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
