sequest

Verb

sequester (third-person singular simple present sequesters, present participle sequestering, simple past and past participle sequestered)

1. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
   • The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
2. To separate in order to store.
   • The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.
3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
   • I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount...

   Synonyms:

   allocate, appropriate, shelve, assign, dedicate, detach, designate, earmark, preselect, put aside

4. To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
5. To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
6. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
   • It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV

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