sequester

Other forms of sequester

past tense

sequesterred·

present participle

sequesterring·

third person

sequesters·

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.

Questions about sequester

What does sequester mean?

sequester means "requisition forcibly, as of enemy property". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sequester?

sequester has 3 syllables: seq-ues-ter. The stress falls on "ues". In IPA it is /sɪˈkwɛstɚ/.

What is another word for sequester?

Close synonyms include impound, attach, confiscate, seize, seclude. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sequester a common word?

sequester is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sequester?

1 word rhymes with sequester. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.