Synonyms of the word

sequester

• v. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
• v. To separate in order to store.
• v. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
• v. (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
• v. (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against…
• v. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property,…
• v. (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
• v. (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
• v. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
• v. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
• n. sequestration; separation.
• n. (law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy;…
• n. (medicine) A sequestrum.

attach

• v. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
• v. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
• v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
• v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral…
• v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
• v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

confiscate

• v. (transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
• adj. (obsolete) confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.

disunite

• v. (transitive) To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
• v. (transitive) To separate, sever, or split.
• v. (intransitive) To disintegrate; to come apart.

divide

• v. (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
• v. (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number…
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
• v. (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
• v. (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
• v. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
• v. (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
• v. (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
• v. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite…
• v. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
• v. (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
• n. A thing that divides.
• n. An act of dividing.
• n. A distancing between two people or things.
• n. (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

impound

• v. (transitive) To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
• v. (transitive) To hold back (for example water by a dam).
• v. (transitive, law) To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate.
• v. (transitive, law, banking) To collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on…
• n. A place in which things are impounded.
• n. A state of being impounded.
• n. That which has been impounded.
• n. (law, banking) Amounts collected from a debtor and held by one with a security interest in property for…

insulate

• v. To separate, detach, or isolate.
• v. To separate a body or material from others, e.g. by non-conductors to prevent the transfer of electricity,…

isolate

• v. (transitive) To set apart or cut off from others.
• v. (transitive) To place in quarantine or isolation.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
• v. (transitive) To insulate, or make free of external influence.
• v. (transitive, microbiology) To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
• v. (transitive) To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.
• n. Something that has been isolated.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

seclude

• v. (transitive) To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw from society or into…
• v. (transitive) To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.

seize

• v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
• v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
• v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
• v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
• v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
• v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
• v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
• v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

separate

• adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
• v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

sequestrate

• v. To sequester.
• adj. (mycology) Having enclosed underground or partially buried fruiting bodies, like a truffle.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

withdraw

• v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
• v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
• v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
• v. (intransitive) To retreat.
• v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.