Mangroves sequester more carbon than any other trees on Earth because they have quite a large underground root structure.
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Sequester
//sɪˈkwɛs.tə//
Synonyms for "sequester" (103 found)
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3 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
12 entrieshas context
6 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
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7 entriesTranslations
54 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- изолиране noun (sequestration, separation)
- отделяне noun (sequestration, separation)
- изолирам verb (to separate from all external influence)
- отделям verb (to separate in order to store)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 假扣押 verb (law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims)
- 隔离 verb (to separate from all external influence)
- 隔绝 verb (to separate from all external influence)
Czech
1 entries- oddělit verb (to separate from all external influence)
Dutch
1 entries- afzonderen verb (to separate from all external influence)
Finnish
3 entries- eristää verb (to separate from all external influence)
- erottaa verb (to separate from all external influence)
- takavarikoida verb (law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims)
French
3 entries- mettre sous séquestre verb (to separate from all external influence)
- séquestrer verb (to separate from all external influence)
- séquestrer verb (chemistry: to prevent an ion from behaving normally)
German
4 entries- Abscheidung noun (sequestration, separation)
- Absonderung noun (sequestration, separation)
- Abtrennung noun (sequestration, separation)
- Sequester noun (a person with whom two or more parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy)
Hungarian
4 entries- elkoboz verb (law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims)
- elkülönít verb (to separate from all external influence)
- elkülönít verb (US, politics, law: to remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget)
- elkülönül verb (to withdraw; to retire)
Korean
1 entries- 격리하다 verb (to separate from all external influence)
Norwegian
1 entries- sekvestrere verb (to separate from all external influence)
Polish
3 entries- areszt noun (sequestration, separation)
- sekwestr noun (sequestration, separation)
- sekwestracja noun (sequestration, separation)
Romanian
3 entries- pune sub sechestru verb (to separate from all external influence)
- sechestra verb (to separate from all external influence)
- sechestra verb (chemistry: to prevent an ion from behaving normally)
Russian
3 entries- изолировать verb (to separate from all external influence)
- секвестировать verb (to separate in order to store)
- уре́зать verb (to separate in order to store)
Spanish
4 entries- aislar verb (to separate from all external influence)
- enclaustrar verb (to separate from all external influence)
- inclaustrar verb (to separate from all external influence)
- separar verb (to separate from all external influence)
Turkish
2 entries- ayırmak verb (to separate from all external influence)
- tecrit etmek verb (to separate from all external influence)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
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when men most sequester themselves from action
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The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.