<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.</li><li>to remove or separate; banish; exile.</li><li>to keep apart from others; segregate or isolate: The jury was sequestered until a verdict was reached.</li><li>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.</li><li>International Law. to requisition, hold, and control (enemy property).</li><li>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.</li><li>Plants can sequester toxins and store them in their tissues.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of sequestering; separation; isolation.</li><li>sequestration (def 7): domestic programs starved for cash by the federal sequester.</li></ul>