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sequester
English
- 🔊 set apart from others“The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on”
- 🔊 undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion“The cations were sequestered”
- 🔊 requisition forcibly, as of enemy property“the estate was sequestered”
- 🔊 keep away from others“He sequestered himself in his study to write a book”
- 🔊 take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority“The FBI seized the drugs”
Spanish
- 🔊 retener to sequester
- 🔊 secuestrar to sequester, seize, confiscate