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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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
Not sequestrate the income of a man who has been proved to be a thief!
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony
The commissary is warned not to sequestrate the property of the accused, but to see that it be administered by some capable person.
“My father is my father; but Joseph is just as much my uncle as he’s yours; and you have no right to sequestrate his person.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Marlowe, Amy Bell
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 the glories of the past, long sequestrated in the chapel, must figure in the procession.
From The Last Lion and Other Tales by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente
From many of the windows the sequestrated sick looked out upon the procession, and mingled their prayers with those of the people as they passed.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
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
And the other was his greed in taking and sequestrating the revenues of Holy Church, to squander them evilly.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Villani, Giovanni
Cardinal Frederick alone enjoined his curates to impress upon the people the importance of declaring every case, and of sequestrating all infected or suspected goods.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
There is ground for seizure, the Article adds, and for sequestrating a work, if the printer does not produce the receipts of the deposit ordered by the preceding Article.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by Cole, John William
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
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