sequester

verb sequesters · sequestering · sequestered

1. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw. The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
2. To separate in order to store. The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.
3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things. I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.

   Similar: allocate, appropriate, shelve, assign, dedicate, detach, designate, earmark, preselect, put aside, secern, secernate

4. To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
5. To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
6. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc. c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
7. US, transitive To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget. The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
8. To seize and hold enemy property.
9. intransitive To withdraw; to retire. to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
10. dated To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

Similar: segregate

noun sequesters

1. sequestration; separation A sequester from liberty , fasting , and prayer
2. A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
3. A sequestrum.