1. Providing privacy or seclusion
   "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"
   - cloistered, reclusive, secluded 
2. Kept separate and secluded
   "a sequestered jury"

1. Requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
   "the estate was sequestered" 
2. Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
   - impound, attach, confiscate, seize 
3. Undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
   "The cations were sequestered" 
4. Keep away from others
   "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"
   - seclude, sequestrate, withdraw 
5. Set apart from others
   "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
   - sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate

See also: private, segregated, sequestration, unintegrated

Type of: change, disunite, divide, insulate, isolate, part, separate, take

Encyclopedia: Sequester

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