sequester

英 [sɪ'kwestə(r)] 美 [sɪ'kwestər]

• vt. 使 ... 隔绝； 隐退
• vt. 扣押

英英释义

Verb:

1. requisition forcibly, as of enemy property;

   "the estate was sequestered"
   

2. take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority;

   "The FBI seized the drugs"
   "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"
   "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"
   

3. undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion;

   "The cations were sequestered"
   

4. keep away from others;

   "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"
   

5. set apart from others;

   "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
   

经典引文

• Strafford was sequestered from parliament.

  出自： D. Hume

词汇搭配

• sequestrate 扣押

近反义词

【近义词】

• confiscate 没收
• impound 扣押
• seize 抓住
• isolate 使孤立
• keep apart 使分离
• set apart 分开
• requisition 请求
• appropriate 适当的
• repossess 取回
• separate 分开的
• segregate 分离
• cut off 切断
• insulate 使绝缘
• quarantine 隔离
• sequestrate 扣押
• withdraw 撤回
• seclude 隔离
• attach 附上