sequestrate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Law.
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to sequester (property).
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to confiscate.
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to separate; seclude.
verb
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law a variant of sequester
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Scots law
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to place (the property of a bankrupt) in the hands of a trustee for the benefit of his creditors
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to render (a person) bankrupt
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archaic to seclude or separate
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of sequestrate
1505–15; < Latin sequestrātus (past participle of sequestrāre ), equivalent to sequestr- ( see sequester) + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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But the really fatal effect of such a defeat would have been that it would no longer have been necessary for the British to sequestrate a hundred or more destroyers at Scapa Flow.
From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.
So it fell out that the von Schwarzenberg's schemes, first to banish and later to sequestrate the American, were set at naught through the agency of Mr. Julian Grant.
From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth
But if he escape conviction, you must sequestrate the living because of the debts.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony
"To use his influence over Major Dabney to sequestrate, absolutely sequestrate, a full third of our property!"
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
Our subject is not entirely to sequestrate the prisoner nor to confine him to absolute solitude.
From Elizabeth Fry by Pitman, Mrs. E. R.
Looking back, Khodorkovsky thinks his mistake was to acknowledge that Yukos could be sequestrated from him, but he did not anticipate its destruction.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 3, 2025
The bill and the subsequent legal costs saw the debt soar to a reported £30,000 and in 2000 Mrs Van Overwaele was sequestrated - the Scottish legal term for being made legally bankrupt.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2022
The proposed jurors were interviewed anonymously, and those selected will remain so – and sequestrated for the duration of the trial, expected to last several months.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2018
Meanwhile a Prussian envoy had again been appointed at the Vatican; all but three of the vacant bishoprics were filled by agreement between the pope and the king, and the sequestrated revenues were restored.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various
It will give a better idea of the uncertain condition of those two, sequestrated underground, than any mere description.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
The grant will help fund the conservation and breeding of tropical forage grasses with deep roots for sequestrating carbon in soil.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 20, 2022
"We have no excuse for sequestrating the estates," replied Ireton.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
A law was enacted sequestrating "the estates, property, and effects of alien enemies."
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie
Besides, everything regarding the certificate and sequestrating of Clear had been quite legal.
From The Silent House by Hume, Fergus
The next morning, however, even after he had succeeded in sequestrating Celia from her companions, he found it impossible to approach the subject.
From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Brehm, Worth
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