- to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
- to remove or separate; banish; exile.
- to keep apart from others; segregate or isolate: The jury was sequestered until a verdict was reached.
- to remove (property) temporarily from the possession of the owner; seize and hold, as the property and income of a debtor, until legal claims are satisfied.
- to requisition, hold, and control (enemy property).
- to trap (a chemical in the atmosphere or environment) and isolate it in a natural or artificial storage area: There are processes to sequester carbon from a power plant's exhaust gases.Plants can sequester toxins and store them in their tissues.
- an act or instance of sequestering; separation; isolation.
- sequestration (def. 7): domestic programs starved for cash by the federal sequester.
- to remove or separate
- to retire into seclusion
- to take (property) temporarily out of the possession of its owner, esp until the claims of creditors are satisfied or a court order is complied with
- to requisition or appropriate (enemy property)
