Meaning & use
Sequestering
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Isolating or keeping something apart, especially to prevent contact, interference, or contamination.
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The jury was sequestering itself in a hotel to avoid media coverage of the trial.
Scientists are exploring ways of sequestering carbon dioxide underground to slow climate change.
A note on using this word
Present participle of 'sequester,' from Latin sequestrare, 'to give up for safekeeping.' Common in both legal contexts, like sequestering a jury, and environmental science, like carbon sequestering.
Words with a similar meaning
isolatingsegregating
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Words with an opposite meaning
releasing
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