English Dictionary

sequester

/sɪˈkwɛs.tə/

verb

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.

During the meditation retreat, she sequestered herself in a small cabin in the woods.

意味（1）

To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.

The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.

意味（2）

To separate in order to store.

The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.

意味（3）

To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.

I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.

意味（4）

(chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound

意味（5）

(law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.

意味（6）

To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.

It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.

意味（7）

(transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.

The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.

意味（8）

(international law) To seize and hold enemy property.

意味（9）

(intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.

to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics

意味（10）

To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.