sequester
[verb]
Synonyms: isolate, close off, cut off, enisle, insulate, island, segregate, separate, seclude, cloister, appropriate, accroach, annex, arrogate, commandeer, confiscate, expropriate, preempt, seize, take

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Related Words: hide, secrete, attach, impound, dispossess

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I. se‧ques‧ter /sɪˈkwestə $ -ər/ verb [transitive usually passive] formal
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: sequestrer, from Late Latin sequestrare 'to give to someone to keep safe', from Latin sequester 'someone given something to keep safe']

1. to keep a person or a group of people away from other people:
The jury were sequestered during the trial.

2. British English to sequestrate

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II. se‧ques‧trate /sɪˈkwestreɪt, ˈsiːkwə-/ (also se‧ques‧ter /sɪˈkwestə $ -ər/) verb [transitive usually passive] British English formal
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Late Latin; Origin: sequestrare; ⇒ sequester]
to take property away from the person it belongs to because they have not paid their debts
—sequestration /ˌsiːkwəˈstreɪʃən, ˌsiːkwɪˈstreɪʃən/ noun [uncountable and countable]

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