sequestrate

American  

[si-kwes-trayt] / sɪˈkwɛs treɪt /

verb (used with object)

sequestrated, sequestrating

1. Law.

   1. to sequester (property).

   2. to confiscate.

2. to separate; seclude.

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sequestrate British  

/ sɪˈkwɛstreɪt /

verb

1. law a variant of sequester

2. Scots law

   1. to place (the property of a bankrupt) in the hands of a trustee for the benefit of his creditors

   2. to render (a person) bankrupt

3. archaic to seclude or separate

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Other Word Forms

• sequestrator
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of sequestrate

1505–15; < Latin sequestrātus (past participle of sequestrāre ), equivalent to sequestr- ( see sequester) + -ātus -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

sequestrate sequestrated sequestrating

So that her children should not be deprived of their father's fortune, which the nation could sequestrate as the property of an émigré, Mme. de Vaubadon, like many other royalists, had sued for a divorce.

From The House of the Combrays by G. Le Notre

Grimes had hinted to his friend how easy it would be to sequestrate this money without Morrell knowing it.

From The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City by Amy Bell Marlowe

As Thomas Roch gave only too visible proofs of mental alienation, the Administration, in the very interest of his invention, judged it prudent to sequestrate him.

From Facing the Flag by Jules Verne

They told her that Lord Carse found himself compelled, for family reasons, to sequestrate her.

From The Billow and the Rock by E.J. Wheeler

They have, besides, possessions in Belgium, Piedmont, and Italy, which I intend to sequestrate.

From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot

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

Their sequestrated property was ordered to be restored.--Vaissette,

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea

Visits of messengers were frequent, almost daily; and his whole stock and crop were sequestrated by the landlord, and a day for the sale fixed.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

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

Can the sequestrators possibly have inventoried and sold the goods, as they themselves declared, on the 16th, though the sequestrating Order was not formally issued till the 17th?

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson

He had actually served as one of the King's Commissioners for sequestrating the estates of Parliamentarians in three English counties.

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson

These later years seem to have been the hey-day of the Loyalists in most of the Colonies, although the Patriots passed severe laws against them, sequestrating their property and even banishing them.

From George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer

Cromwell’s visitors were out over England examining into the condition of the religious houses, exposing their abuses and sequestrating their estates.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude

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