Sequester

[sɪ'kwestə] or [sɪ'kwɛstɚ]

解释:

(verb.) set apart from others; 'The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on'.

(verb.) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; 'The cations were sequestered'.

(verb.) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; 'the estate was sequestered'.

校对:弗恩--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.

(v. t.) To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.

(v. t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.

(v. i.) To withdraw; to retire.

(v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

(n.) Sequestration; separation.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Same as Sequestrum.

整理:斯特拉

同义词及近义词：

v. a. Sequestrate.

弗朗辛校对

解释:

v.t. to separate: to withdraw from society: to seclude: to set apart: (law) to place anything contested into the hands of a third person till the dispute is settled: to hold the property of another till the profits pay the demands: to take possession of the estate of a bankrupt in order to distribute it among the creditors: to confiscate.—v.i. to renounce any interest in the estate of a husband.—n. (Shak.) the act of sequestering: an umpire.—adjs. Sēques′tered retired secluded; Seques′trable.—v.t. Sēques′trate (law) to sequester.—ns. Sēquestrā′tion the Scotch legal term for bankruptcy: the act of sequestering esp. the seizure of any one's property for the use of the state during dispute or for the benefit of creditors: state of being separated: seclusion from society; Sēquestrā′tor one who sequesters another's property: one to whom property is committed during dispute.

整理:皮尔斯