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Sequestrate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. Chiefly British To seize; confiscate: "The sheriffs ... will be able to seize stock and other assets, and to sequestrate bank accounts belonging to defaulters” ( Daily Telegraph).

v. To seclude; sequester.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To sequester.

adj. Having enclosed underground or partially buried fruiting bodies, like a truffle.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To sequester.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

. To set apart from others; seclude.

In law, to sequester.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. set apart from others

v. keep away from others

Word Usage

"They were particularly prone to "sequestrate" gold and silver in any form, and their indiscriminate violence against the civilian population was already having effect."

Verb Form

sequestrated sequestrates sequestrating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

disunite separate divide part insulate isolate

Form

sequestrated sequestrating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sequester separate seize confiscate