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Showing words for SEQUESTER using the English dictionary

9 Letter Words for Sequester

sequester

8 Letter Words for Sequester

queerest, questers, requests

7 Letter Words for Sequester

queests, quester, request, sequest, squetee

6 Letter Words for Sequester

esters, estrus, esture, queers, queest, quests, reests, resees, resets, restes, retuse, reuses, russet, serest, steers, steres, struse, suerte, surest, tereus, tsures, tusser, ureses

5 Letter Words for Sequester

eques, erses, esere, essee, ester, estre, estus, queer, queet, quest, reese, reest, resee, reset, rests, resue, retes, reuse, ruses, russe, rusts, seers, seres, serut, squet, steer, stere, strue, sture, suers, suets, teers, tereu, terse, trees, tress, trues, truss, tsere, turse, users, uster, utees

4 Letter Words for Sequester

eres, erse, erst, eses, esse, ests, eure, qere, ques, quet, rees, reet, rest, rete, rets, rues, ruse, russ, rust, ruts, seer, sees, sere, sers, sert, sese, sets, sqrt, ster, stre, stue, suer, sues, suet, suqs, sure, teer, tees, tree, tres, true, tues, ures, usee, user, uses, ussr, utes

3 Letter Words for Sequester

eer, ere, ers, ert, ese, esq, esr, ess, est, esu, qrs, qtr, qts, que, ree, req, res, rte, rue, rut, see, seq, ser, set, sse, ssu, str, sue, suq, sur, sus, tee, ter, tes, trs, tss, tue, tur, ure, urs, use, ust, ute, uts

Definitions for Sequester

[1] to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
[2] to remove or separate; banish; exile.
[3] to keep apart from others; segregate or isolate: The jury was sequestered until a verdict was reached.
[4] Law . to remove (property) temporarily from the possession of the owner; seize and hold, as the property and income of a debtor, until legal claims are satisfied.
[5] International Law . to requisition, hold, and control (enemy property).
[6] to trap (a chemical in the atmosphere or environment) and isolate it in a natural or artificial storage area: There are processes to sequester carbon from a power plant's exhaust gases. Plants can sequester toxins and store them in their tissues.
[7] an act or instance of sequestering; separation; isolation.
[8] sequestration(def 7) : domestic programs starved for cash by the federal sequester.
[9] to remove or separate
[10] (usually passive) to retire into seclusion
[11] law to take (property) temporarily out of the possession of its owner, esp until the claims of creditors are satisfied or a court order is complied with
[12] international law to requisition or appropriate (enemy property)

Words related to Sequester

segregate, cloister, insulate, hide, secrete, withdraw, separate, island, enisle

Words nearby Sequester

sequential access, sequential analysis, sequential scanning, sequential-access, sequentially compact set, sequester, sequestral, sequestrant, sequestrate, sequestration, sequestrectomy

Origin of Sequester

1350–1400; Middle English sequestren < Latin sequestrāre to put in hands of a trustee, derivative of sequester ‘trustee, depositary’

Other words from Sequester

se·ques·tra·ble , adjective
non·se·ques·tered , adjective
self-se·ques·tered , adjective
un·se·ques·tered , adjective

Word origin for Sequester

C14: from Late Latin sequestrāre to surrender for safekeeping, from Latin sequester a trustee

Synonyms for Sequester

cloister, close off, insulate, segregate, hide, secrete, separate, withdraw, cut off, draw back, enisle, island, set apart, set off