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

Derived forms: sequestered, sequestering, sequesters

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

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