Find your perfect word!
Definition sequester
Etymology
From Old French sequestrer , from Late Latin sequestr? (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“follow”).
Verb
sequester (third-person singular simple present sequesters, present participle sequestering, simple past and past participle sequestered)
- To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
- To separate in order to store.
- To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
- (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
- To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
- (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
- (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Noun
sequester (plural sequesters)
- sequestration; separation
- (law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.
- (medicine) A sequestrum.
Results 113 Words with the letters SEQUESTER
15 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
14 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
13 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
12 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
11 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
10 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
9 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
8 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
7 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
6 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
5 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
4 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
3 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
2 letter words with the letters SEQUESTER ↑
You can also try words with the phrase SEQUESTER, words starting with the letters SEQUESTER, or words ending in the letters SEQUESTER.
Favorites Searches
Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,
Some random searches: Words with the letters PCUAJ, Words with the letters DXTSI, Words with the letters ZDEN, Words with the letters CKBU,