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▸ verb: To separate in order to store.
▸ verb: To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
▸ verb: (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
▸ verb: (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
▸ verb: To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
▸ verb: (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
▸ verb: (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
▸ verb: To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
▸ noun: sequestration; separation
▸ noun: (law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
▸ noun: (medicine) A sequestrum.
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seclude,
isolate,
sequestrate,
set apart,
confiscate,
withdraw,
impound,
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