Definition of sequester
verb
[with object] 1isolate or hide away (someone or something):Tiberius was sequestered on an island the jurors had been sequestered since Monday the artist sequestered himself in his studio for two years [no object] Chemistry form a chelate or other stable compound with (an ion, atom, or molecule) so that it is no longer available for reactions.
2take legal possession of (assets) until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met:the power of courts to sequester the assets of unions take forcible possession of (something); confiscate:rebel property was sequestered and a military government installed legally place (the property of a bankrupt) in the hands of a trustee for division among the creditors: (as adjective sequestered)a trustee in a sequestered estate
