Sequester

Definitions: Sequester

Sequester

Verb

1. Take by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork".

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

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

Date "sequester" was first used: sometime around 1384. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Law	To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations. (references)
Medicine	A portion of dead bone which has become detached from the healthy bone tissue, as occurs in necrosis. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A sequestering agent forms soluble complex ions with a simple ion, therebyinhibiting the activity of that ion. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sequester

Synonyms: attach (v), confiscate (v), impound (v), isolate (v), keep apart (v), seclude (v), seize (v), sequestrate (v), set apart (v), withdraw (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Penalty	Verb: fine, mulct, amerce, sconce, confiscate; sequestrate, sequester; escheat; estreat, forfeit.
Taking	Oust; (eject); divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb; (suck in); draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sequester

English words defined with "sequester": Sequestering. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sequester": Chelation Therapy ♦ Synaptic Vesicles. (references)

Etymologies containing "sequester": Sequestrum. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Sequester" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (sequestra), Latin (go-between, mediator).

Domain	Title
Books	The Potential of U.S. Cropland to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Sequester" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sequester" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	6	143,867

Expression using "sequester": sequester oneself. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sequester"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		veçorim (isolation), izoloj (insulate, isolate, lag, ostracize, seclude, segregate), izolim (alienation, confinement, insularity, isolation, ostracism, seclusion, segregation, sequestration). (various references)

Arabic		‏حجز (attach, attachment, be taken, bespeak, bond, confine, confinement, constrain, derequisition, detain, detention, distrain, foreclose, have reservations, immure, impound, incarcerate, incarceration, keep, lock, mew, put away, recapture, reservation, reserve, restrain, retention, seize, seizure, sequestration, shut, staunch, stop, tackle), ‏حبس (confine, confinement, constraint, crib, custody, duress, gaol, imprison, imprisonment, jail, lockup, mewl, occlude, prison, sequestration, shut), ‏عزل (cut off, depose, deposition, disengage, displacement, excommunicate, excommunication, gaol, insulate, isolate, isolation, jail, recall, relegate, seclude, segregate, segregation, taboo), ‏صادر (attach, commandeer, condemn, conscript, expropriate, impound, levy, possess, requisition, seize, sequestrate, take possession of). (various references)

Bulgarian		уединявам (shut away), секвестирам (embargo, sequestrate), конфискувам (arrest, condemn, confiscate, escheat, impound, seize, sequestrate), отчуждавам (alienate, estrange, expropriate), отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), изолирам (enclose, enisle, insulate, island, isolate, seal, seal off, seclude, segregate, sequestrate, shut in, shut off). (various references)

Chinese		�"离 (isolation, seclude, Secluding, sequestered, Sequestering, sequestration, standoff). (various references)

Czech		zabavit (confiscate, impound, requisition, seize, sequestrate), odlouèit (disconnect, dissociate, insulate), oddìlit (detach, disjunct, dispart, fractionate, mark off, part, partition, scorify, segregate, separate, sever, split off). (various references)

Danish		sekvester (sequestra, sequestrum). (various references)

Dutch		sequestrum (sequestrum), sequester (sequestrum). (various references)

Farsi		مصادره کردن (Confiscate), تفرقه (Division, Schism), توقیف کردن (Apprehend, Arrest, Book, Confiscate, Detain, Grab, Impound, Intern, Seize, Suppress), جداکردن (Abrupt, Abstract, Amputate, Analyze, Calve, Chop, Cleave, Cutoff, Detach, Disconnect, Dissociate, Disunite, Divide, Drawoff, Insulate, Intercept, Part, Partition, Rive, Rupture, Select, Separate, Sever, Try, Uncouple, Unlink, Untwist, Unzip), جداءی (Breakaway, Divorce, Gulf, Rupture, Seclusion, Segregation, Severance). (various references)

Finnish		takavarikoida (commandeer, to sequester, to sequestrate). (various references)

French		séquestrer, séquestre (seizure, sequestration, sequestrum), placer sous séquestre, isoler (seclude, segregate, separate), enfermer (seal), confisquer (seize, sequestrate). (various references)

German		sequestrieren (sequestrate, to sequester, to sequestrate), Sequester (custodian, sequestra, sequestrum), abkapseln (to be introverted, to seclude oneself). (various references)

Greek		κατάσχω (attach, confiscate, foreclose, forfeit, garnishee, impound, seize, sequestrate). (various references)

Hebrew		לעקל (attach, distrain, foreclose, impound, sequestrate), ל�"פקיע רכוש (commandeer, confiscate, expropriate), ל�"רחיק (abduce, alienate, dismiss, distance, keep afar, remove, stave off, turn away, warn off), לבו�"�" (insulate, isolate, seclude, segregate). (various references)

Hungarian		lefoglal (attach, confiscate, distrain, engage, foreclose, impound, make advances to, taken, to arrest, to book a seat, to confiscate, to distress, to embargo, to engross, to impound, to keep sy busy, to levy, to prise, to reserve, to seize, to sequester, to sequestrate, to take, took), különválaszt (to disassociate, to grade, to sequester), elkülönítés (detachment, disassociation, disconnection, dissociation, isolation, partition, quarantine, seclusion, segregation, separation, spacing). (various references)

Italian		sequestro (abduction, confiscation, deposit, deprivation of personal freedom, kidnapping, seizure, sequestration, sequestrum), sequestrare (abduct, attach, confiscate, distrain, impound, kidnap, seize, sequestrate, take away), confiscare (confiscate, disendow, engross, impound, seize). (various references)

Korean		격리시키십시�". (various references)

Manx		goaill shellooderys (seize). (various references)

Pig Latin		equestersay

Portuguese		sequestro (deposit, deprivation of personal freedom, hijacking, sequestra, sequestration, sequestrum), seqüestrar (embark, kidnap, sequestrate), renunciar a (forgo, forsake, put down, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign), remover (brush, clear, comb, fork, get off, obliterate, obviate, purge, remove, shift, shovel, winkle out, withdraw), isolar (enjoin, insulate, island, isolate, seclude, segregate), confiscar (condemn, confiscate, convert, embargo, eschew, forfeit, have the car impounded, seize, sequestrate), banir (ban, banish, cast out, deport, do away with, exile, expatriate, get rid of, ostracize, outlawry, proscription, relegate, remove, rusticate, taboo). (various references)

Romanian		sechestru (attachment, distraint, execution, extent), sechestrare (seizure, sequestration), sechestra (extend, impound, seize), izola (cut off, divide, enisle, insulate, isolate, maroon, seal, seclude, segregate), confisca (condemn, confiscate, seize). (various references)

Russian		секвестр (sequesrum, sequestra, sequestration, sequestrum), конфисковать (condemn, confiscate, impound, seize, sequestrate), мертвая часть кости (sequestrum). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sekvestrirati, zapleniti (capture, confiscate, loot, prise, prize, seize), odvajanje (detachment, dissociation, secession, segmentation, segregate, segregation, separation), izolovati (enisle, insulate, isolate). (various references)

Spanish		secuestrar (abduct, distrain, distrain upon, hijack, kidnap, seize), embargar (attach, confiscate, distrain upon, embargo, impede, impound, seize, sequestrate), apoderarse de (come over, grasp, grip, possess oneself of, seize, take possession of), aislar (cut off, insulate, isolate, maroon, seclude, separate, shut off). (various references)

Swedish		beslagta (confiscate, impound, levy, press into service, seize, sequestrate), avskilja (abstract, detach, dissever, partition off, segregate, separate). (various references)

Thai		โ�"�"เ�"ี่ยว (isolate, isolated, lone, sole), ทำให้โ�"�"เ�"ี่ยว. (various references)

Turkish		tecrit etmek (insulate, isolate, put in quarantine, quarantine, segregate, shut off, wall), haczetmek (attach, confiscate, distrain, distrain on, distrain up, distress, garnish, garnishee, impound, levy, seise, sequestrate, vest), el koymak (appropriate, arrest, attach, capture, commandeer, condemn, distrain, distrain on, distrain up, distress, embargo, hold, impound, impress, levy, requisition, seise, seize, sequestrate, take the action, usurp, vest), ayrı tutmak (discriminate, individualize, insulate, isolate, make a distinction, segregate, set apart, set off, take aside), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow). (various references)

Ukranian		усамітнювати, секвеструвати (sequestrate), секвестр (sequestration, sequestrum), самітність (closeness, desolation, loneliness, oneness, onliness, retirement, solitude), заволодівати (collect, occupy, pot). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	sepono, sequestrare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sequester": sequestered, sequestering, sequesters. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sequester" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: equestre, secquester, sepuester, sequatur, sequenster, sequeter, souwester. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sequester" (pronounced sikwe"ster)
7	-i k w e" s t er	requester.
5	-w e" s t er	Wester.
4	-e" s t er	ester, fester, investor, jester, molester, nester, Nestor, pester, polyester, rester, semester, tester, trimester.
3	-s t er	adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, dumpster, duster, Easter, faster, Feaster, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, juster, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, Mister, mobster, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pilaster, plaster, pollster, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, shyster, sinister, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, youngster, zoster.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-q-r-s-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: queerest, questers, requests.
	-2 letters: quester, request.
	-3 letters: esters, estrus, queers, quests, reests, resees, resets, retuse, reuses, russet, serest, steers, steres, surest, tusser.
	-4 letters: erses, ester, queer, quest, reest, resee, reset, rests, reuse, ruses, rusts, seers, seres, steer, stere, suers, suets, terse, trees, tress, trues, truss, users.
	-5 letters: erst, eses, rees, rest, rete, rets, rues, ruse.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-q-r-s-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: requesters, sequesters.
	+2 letters: sequestered, sequestrate.
	+3 letters: frequentness, sequestering, sequestrated, sequestrates.
	+4 letters: equestriennes, grotesqueness, grotesqueries, prerequisites, requisiteness, sesquiterpene.
	+5 letters: frequentnesses, sesquiterpenes.
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