SEQUESTRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sequestrate mean? 

• SEQUESTRATE (verb)
  The verb SEQUESTRATE has 2 senses:

1. keep away from others

2. set apart from others

  Familiarity information: SEQUESTRATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEQUESTRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sequestrate    ... he / she / it sequestrates   
Past simple: sequestrated   
Past participle: sequestrated   
-ing form: sequestrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Keep away from others

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

seclude; sequester; sequestrate; withdraw

Context example:

He sequestered himself in his study to write a book

Hypernyms (to "sequestrate" is one way to...):

insulate; isolate (place or set apart)

Verb group:

adjourn; retire; withdraw (break from a meeting or gathering)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sequestrate"):

lose (withdraw, as from reality)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Set apart from others

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

isolate; keep apart; sequester; sequestrate; set apart

Context example:

The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on

Hypernyms (to "sequestrate" is one way to...):

disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I covered my head and arms with the skirt of my frock, and went out to walk in a part of the plantation which was quite sequestrated; but I found no pleasure in the silent trees, the falling fir-cones, the congealed relics of autumn, russet leaves, swept by past winds in heaps, and now stiffened together.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)