sequester

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Synonyms: requester, requested, semester, sequencer, quester, requestor, requestee, sequestra, seester, sequesters, sequest

Antonyms: requester, requested, semester, sequencer, quester, requestor, requestee, sequestra, seester, sequesters, sequest

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Verb

1. To [[separate]] from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
2. To separate in order to [[store]].
3. {{senseid|en|set apart}} To [[set apart]]; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
4. {{lb|en|chemistry}} To prevent an [[ion]] in solution from behaving normally by forming a [[coordination compound]].
5. {{lb|en|legal}} To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as [[security]] against legal claims.
6. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
7. {{lb|en|transitive|US|politics|legal}}<!--is this also 'euphemistic' or 'extended'?--> To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
8. {{lb|en|international|_|legal}} To seize and hold [[enemy]] [[property]].
9. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[withdraw]]; to [[retire]].
10. {{lb|en|dated}} To [[renounce]] (as a [[widow]] may) any concern with the [[estate]] of her [[husband]].

Noun

1. [[sequestration]]; [[separation]]
2. {{lb|en|legal}} A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the [[controversy]]; one who [[mediate]]s between two parties; a [[referee]]<ref>{{R:Bouvier Law Dictionary}}</ref>
3. {{lb|en|medicine}} A [[sequestrum]].

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