sequester

Etymology

From Middle English sequestren (verb) and sequestre (noun), from Old French sequestrer , from Late Latin sequestrō (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“follow”).

verb

1. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
   The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
2. To separate in order to store.
   The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.
3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
4. (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
5. (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
6. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
   c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
7. (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
   The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
8. (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
9. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
10. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

noun

1. sequestration; separation
2. (law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
3. (medicine) A sequestrum.