sequestration

Other forms of sequestration

plural

sequestrations·

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 sequestration

What does sequestration mean?

sequestration means "the act of segregating or sequestering". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sequestration?

sequestration has 4 syllables: seq-ue-stra-tion. The stress falls on "stra". In IPA it is /ˌsɛkwəˈstɹeɪʃən/.

What is another word for sequestration?

Close synonyms include segregation, requisition. 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 sequestration a common word?

sequestration 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 sequestration?

10 words rhyme with sequestration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.