Words Like SEQUESTER

We have put together a list of words that are similar to SEQUESTER.

18 Alternative Words Similar to sequester

1 Attach Verb      Synonym Words Like Attach
2 Seize Verb      Synonym Words Like Seize
3 Seclude Verb      Synonym Words Like Seclude
4 Sequestrate Verb      Synonym Words Like Sequestrate
5 Withdraw Verb      Synonym Words Like Withdraw
6 Isolate Verb      Synonym Words Like Isolate
7 Change Verb      Synonym Words Like Change
8 Disunite Verb      Synonym Words Like Disunite
9 Divide Verb      Synonym Words Like Divide
10 Insulate Verb      Synonym Words Like Insulate
11 Part Verb      Synonym Words Like Part
12 Separate Verb      Synonym Words Like Separate
13 Take Verb      Synonym Words Like Take
14 Sequestering Verb-transitive      Form Words Like Sequestering
15 Remove Verb-transitive      Synonym Words Like Remove
16 Retire Verb-intransitive      Synonym Words Like Retire
17 Separation Noun      Synonym Words Like Separation
18 Distrain Verb      Hyponym Words Like Distrain

2 examples of sequester

1 The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment
2 The police confiscated the stolen artwork

10 definitions of sequester

1 To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
2 To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
3 To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
4 To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
5 To withdraw; to retire.
6 To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
7 Sequestration; separation.
8 A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
9 Same as Sequestrum.
10 requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
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