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say it: si-KWEH-stur
sequester is a verb meaning "requisition forcibly, as of enemy property". It carries 5 recorded senses.
take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
“The FBI seized the drugs”
“The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment”
“The police confiscated the stolen artwork”
undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
“The cations were sequestered”
chemistry
keep away from others
“He sequestered himself in his study to write a book”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sequester come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.