Sequestered

Definitions: Sequestered

Sequestered

Adjective

1. Providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; 'a secluded romantic spot".

2. Kept separate and secluded; "a sequestered jury".

Date "sequestered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1650. (references)

Synonyms: Sequestered

Synonyms: cloistered (adj), reclusive (adj), secluded (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Seclusion Exclusion	Adjective: secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye; out of the world, out of the way; " the world forgetting by the world forgot ".
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sequestered

English words defined with "sequestered": By himself ♦ cloistered, cloistral, conventual ♦ monastic, monastical ♦ reclusive ♦ seclude, secluded, sequester, Sequestrable, sequestrate, Sequestrator ♦ withdraw. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sequestered": court officer. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Trial and Error: The Making of Sequestered (2003)
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Domain	Title
Books	Diagenetic and catagenetic transformations of sequestered biomarkers (reference) Masterpieces of Japanese Garden Art: Sequestered Gardens (reference) Sequestered (reference) Travels in Nepal: The Sequestered Kingdom (Penguin Travel Library) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	This was one of the facilities in which Plague patients would have been sequestered while undergoing diagnosis and treatment of Plague symptoms.Credit: CDC.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Syria	A number of Rif'at's supporters, including military guards, were sequestered in the compound, and the clash resulted in an unconfirmed number of deaths, including among government forces. (references)
Political Economy	UKRAINE	The Ukrainian government improved the quality of the 2001 budget and by limiting the deficit . The IMF voiced doubts about the government's ability to collect an expected 5.9 billion UAH from privatization in 2001. As a result, the government sequestered funds in the third and fourth quarters, when most privatization revenues were scheduled to flow in. Ukraine's better-than-expected fiscal position also was achieved by increased tax collection and higher than expected economic growth. (references)
Travel	Nigeria	Nigerian police may not always inform U.S. authorities of an American citizen in distress and victims may not always have the opportunity to communicate for assistance since they may be sequestered under highly controlled conditions. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Sequestered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 48.57% of the time. "Sequestered" is used about 35 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
Lexical Verb (past participle)	48.57%	17	85,106
Adjective (general or positive)	34.29%	12	101,599
Lexical Verb (past tense)	17.14%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	35	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "sequestered": newgate-sequestered, non-sequestered.
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Language		Translations for "sequestered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i izoluar (closed, confined, isolated, secluded). (various references)

Bulgarian		конфискуван (exempt, forfeit). (various references)

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

Czech		oddìlený (detached, discrete, separate). (various references)

Dutch		koolstof,vastgelegd door bomen in de groeifase (carbon sequestered by growing trees). (various references)

French		carbone piégé par les arbres en recroissance (carbon sequestered by growing trees). (various references)

German		sonderte ab (secreted). (various references)

Greek		απομονωμένοσ (detached, incommunicado, isolated, secluded). (various references)

Hebrew		מוחרם (boycotted, confiscated, ostracized). (various references)

Hungarian		visszavonult (recluse, reclusive, retired, secluded, solitary), zár alatt levő, félreeső (devious, outlying, secluded, solitary), elzárkózott. (various references)

Italian		solitario (alone, lone, lone wolf, lonely, loner, patience, private, single, single handed, single-hander, solitaire, solitary, solo), sequestrato (abducted), remoto (back, distant, early, outlying, remote). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		幽寂 (quiet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ゆうじゃく (quiet). (various references)

Korean		격리시키�". (various references)

Manx		goit ayns shellooderys, ayns disert. (various references)

Pig Latin		equesteredsay

Portuguese		sossegado (calm, half-light, Pacific, peace loving, peaceable, placid, quiescent, quiet, restful, sedate, serene, silent, sober-blooded, still, stilly, tranquil), retirado (cloistral, exsiccate, offscreen, retired, secluded, secret, solitary, withdrawn), pouco frequentado (out of the way, unfrequented), isolado (alone, cloistered, cloistral, enclosure, insulated, insulin, isolated, lone, lonesome, particular, recluse, secluded, separate, sole, solitary, special, sporadic, straggling, strayed), calmo (calm, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, Douce, even, even-minded, halcyon, half-light, impervious, irretentive, leisurely, mild, noiseless, passionless, peace loving, peaceable, peaceful, philosophical, philosophical belief, phloem, placable, placid, plodder, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, sedate, self-collected, serene, smooth, sober, sober-blooded, staid, still, stilly, tranquil, uneventful, unprovoked, unruffled, unstirred, untroubled), afastado do mundo. (various references)

Romanian		sechestrat, retras (covert, drawn, lone, lonely, private, quiet, recluse, remote, reserved, retired, retiring, secluded, seclusive, secret, separate, solitary, unfrequented), izolat (apart, detached, isolated, lonely, lonesome, out of the way, private, remote, removed, retired, scattered, secluded, seclusive, segregate, separate, solitary, unfrequented), confiscat. (various references)

Russian		изолированный (isolated, secluded, separate). (various references)

Scottish		ùdlaidh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaplenjen, odvojen (detached, discrete, divided, forked, segregate, separate, separated). (various references)

Spanish		retirado (annuitant, disengaged, Pensionary, pensioner, ret., retired, retired employe, retired employee, retired person, retreat, secluded, withdrawn), embargado. (various references)

Swedish		ostörd (undisturbed, uninterrupted, unmolested, untroubled), lugn (calm, comfortable, comfy, composed, composure, cool, cool-headed, coolness, countenance, dispassionate, ease, easiness, easy, equability, equable, impassive, impassivity, imperturbability, imperturbable, leisurely, low pressure, orderly, peace, peaceful, philosophical, phlegm, placid, quiescence, quiescency, quiescent, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, restful, sedate, self controlled, self possessed, serene, serenity, sheltered, sobriety, tranquil, tranquility, tranquillity, undisturbed, unhurried, unruffled), avsides belägen (out of the way, remote, secluded). (various references)

Turkish		tek başına (alone, by itself, by oneself, on one's own, on one's tod, separately, single handed, singly, unaccompanied, unaided), münzevi (secluded, solitary), dünyadan elini ayağını çekmiş. (various references)

Ukranian		усамітнений (cloistered, lonesome, secluded, withdrawn). (various references)

Vietnamese		khuất nẻo (private), ẩn dật; hẻo lánh. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Sequestered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sepuestered. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sequestered" (pronounced sikwe"sterd)
5	-e" s t er d	festered, pestered.
4	-s t er d	administered, bastard, blistered, bolstered, bustard, cloistered, clustered, custard, filibustered, flustered, fostered, mastered, mustard, mustered, plastered, registered, unregistered, upholstered.
3	-t er d	altered, bantered, bartered, battered, bettered, buttered, catered, centered, chartered, cluttered, countered, cratered, doctored, embittered, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, fettered, filtered, flattered, fluttered, frittered, glittered, guttered, headquartered, lettered, littered, martyred, mattered, mentored, metered, monitored, muttered, neutered, pattered, petard, petered, reentered, scattered, shattered, sheltered, shuttered, slaughtered, spattered, splattered, splintered, sputtered, tattered, teetered, tutored, unaltered, unchartered, uncluttered, unfettered, unfiltered, uttered, watered, wintered.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-e-q-r-s-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: requested, sequester.
	-3 letters: queerest, questers, requests.
	-4 letters: deserts, dessert, dusters, queered, quested, quester, reested, request, reseeds, seeders, steered, tressed, trussed.
	-5 letters: desert, deters, druses, duress, duster, esters, estrus, etudes, queers, quests, reests, reseed, resees, resets, rested, retuse, reused, reuses, rudest, russet, rusted, seders, seeder, serest, steeds, steers, steres, sudser, suedes, surest, tusser.
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