Usually means: Isolates or stores substances securely away.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. sequesters: Merriam-Webster
  2. sequesters: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sequesters: Vocabulary.com
  4. sequesters: Wordnik
  5. sequesters: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sequesters: Wiktionary
  7. sequesters: Dictionary.com
  8. sequesters: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Sequesters: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. sequesters: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sequesters: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. sequesters: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sequesters: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sequesters: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. sequesters: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sequester)

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