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sequester

verb
/sɪˈkwɛs.tə/UK/sɪˈkwɛs.tɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English sequestren (verb) and sequestre (noun), from Old French sequestrer, from Late Latin sequestrō (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“follow”).

  1. derived from *sekʷ-✻ — “follow”
  2. derived from sequester
  3. derived from sequestrō — “separate, give up for safekeeping”
  4. derived from sequestrer
  5. inherited from sequestren

Definitions

  1. To separate from all external influence

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

    • The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
    • when men most sequester themselves from action

  2. To separate in order to store.

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

  3. To set apart

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

    • I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.

    2. To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security…

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

    3. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration

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

      • c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.

    4. 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.

    5. To seize and hold enemy property.

    6. To withdraw

      To withdraw; to retire.

      • to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics

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

    8. sequestration

      sequestration; separation

      • A sequester from liberty , fasting , and prayer

    9. A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the…

      A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee

    10. A sequestrum.

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Derived

biosequester, cryosequester, geosequester, resequester, sequesterable, sequestered adjective, sequesterer, sequesterment, sequestrable adjective, sequestrate verb, sequestration noun, sequestrator noun

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sequester. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sequester. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at sequester

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA