Associations to the word «Sequester»

SEQUESTER, verb. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.

SEQUESTER, verb. To separate in order to store.

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

SEQUESTER, verb. (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound

SEQUESTER, verb. (legal) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.

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

SEQUESTER, verb. (transitive) (US) (politics) (legal) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.

SEQUESTER, verb. (international legal) To seize and hold enemy property.

SEQUESTER, verb. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.

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

SEQUESTER, noun. Sequestration; separation

SEQUESTER, noun. (legal) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.

SEQUESTER, noun. (medicine) A sequestrum.

SEQUESTER, verb. Requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered".

SEQUESTER, verb. 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".

SEQUESTER, verb. Undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered".

SEQUESTER, verb. Keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book".

SEQUESTER, verb. Set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on".