Crossword-Solution: SEQUESTER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sequester | v. t. | To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate. |
| Sequester | v. t. | To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc. |
| Sequester | v. t. | To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things. |
| Sequester | v. t. | To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively. |
| Sequester | v. i. | To withdraw; to retire. |
| Sequester | v. i. | To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband. |
| Sequester | n. | Sequestration; separation. |
| Sequester | n. | A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee. |
| Sequester | n. | Same as Sequestrum. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “SEQUESTER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion | 1 answer |
| Isolate or hide away | 1 answer |
| Isolate, hide away | 1 answer |
| Put into seclusion | 1 answer |
| Send into seclusion | 1 answer |
| Set apart, as a jury | 1 answer |
| Isolate, in a way | 4 answers |
| Hide away | 11 answers |
| Insulate | 14 answers |
| Seclude | 22 answers |
| Draw Back | 31 answers |
| Isolate | 37 answers |
| Tag | 45 answers |
| Estrange | 47 answers |
| Shield | 51 answers |
| Set apart | 52 answers |
| Section | 54 answers |
| Confiscate | 54 answers |
| Impound | 57 answers |
| Island | 61 answers |
| Divide | 64 answers |
| Restrain | 72 answers |
| Separate | 95 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SEQUESTER (5)
Let him sequester himself, from the company of his countrymen, and diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation where he travelleth.
Others readily allowed that there was a time when the claims of the public were satisfied, and when a man might properly sequester himself, to review his life and purify his heart.
The gentry are sequester’d all; Our wives you find at Goldsmith Hall, For there they meet with the devil and all; Still, God, etc.
Under the rose be it spoken, there’s a company of men, Trainbands they are called—a plague confound ’em:— And when they are waiting at Westminster Hall, May their wives be beguiled and begat with child all! Under the rose be it spoken, there’s a damn’d committee Sits in hell (Goldsmiths’ Hall), in the midst of the city, Only to sequester the poor Cavaliers— The devil take their souls, and the hangman their ears.
This hand of yours requires A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer, Much castigation, exercise devout; For here’s a young and sweating devil here That commonly rebels.
Quotes with SEQUESTER (3)
Jennifer was good at her job and loved it. However, I hated the fact she was forced on me. She was young, beautiful, and thin. Everything I never felt that I was, and she always insisted on wearing heels and cute little suits in the office. Really? Who had such bionic feet that they could wear those day in and day out. My attitude toward her bordered on civil with a touch of sarcasm. I was sure she had stories to tell the women in the church on how hard I was to work with. I …
Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of a grave will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard, as if declining to claim fellowship with the great family of man; thus, in a symbolic language universally understood, seeking (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth)’ Humbly to express A penitential loneliness.
What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, LAT, NYT, WP.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1973–2006).