Sequester and Avoid

verb

• Requisition forcibly, as of enemy property.
  • usage: "the estate was sequestered"
• Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority.
  • usage: "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"
  • synonyms: impound, attach, confiscate, seize
• Undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion.
  • usage: "The cations were sequestered"
• Keep away from others.
  • usage: "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"
  • synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw
• Set apart from others.
  • usage: "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
  • synonyms: sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate

• (v.i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
• (v.t.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken or till the owner has performed the decree of court or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
• (v.t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
• (n.) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
• (n.) Sequestration; separation.
• (v.t.) To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
• (v.t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
• (v.i.) To withdraw; to retire.
• (n.) Same as Sequestrum.

verb

• Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.
  • usage: "Her former friends now avoid her"
• Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening.
  • usage: "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
  • synonyms: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, ward off
• Refrain from doing something.
  • usage: "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
• Refrain from certain foods or beverages.
  • usage: "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
  • synonyms: keep off
• Declare invalid.
  • usage: "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
  • synonyms: invalidate, annul, quash, void, nullify

• (a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
• (a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
• (v.i.) To become void or vacant.
• (a.) To get rid of.
• (a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
• (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
• (a.) To empty.
• (v.i.) To retire; to withdraw.
• (a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.