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.
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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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"To use his influence over Major Dabney to sequestrate, absolutely sequestrate, a full third of our property!"
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
He accordingly issued a peremptory order to sequestrate every copy in Italy.
From Great Astronomers by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
They told her that Lord Carse found himself compelled, for family reasons, to sequestrate her.
From The Billow and the Rock by Wheeler, E.J.
He commissioned them and the chief alguazil of Valladolid to seize the person of the archbishop, to sequestrate his goods, and draw up an inventory of them.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio
V. condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit†. disapprove &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
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
All his property was sequestrated, and his money and jewels were secured within the treasury.
Her father was a Pole, one of those ill-fated noblemen who died for their country, whose estates were sequestrated, and whose fortune went to swell the coffers of the Russian Treasury.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
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
In September Napoleon demanded Stein's dismissal, and enforced the demand by sequestrating Frederick William's Westphalian estates, threatening at the same time to continue the French occupation of Prussia indefinitely.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
In the meanwhile, the Supreme Civil Court issued a warrant, sequestrating the property of Jean Key, or Wright, which removed out of the reach of the actors in the violence the prize which they expected.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir
King John kept monasteries without any abbot for years, sequestrating the estates in the meantime, and leaving the monks to make the best of it.
From The Coming of the Friars by Jessopp, Augustus
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 Masson, David
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