Sequester and Sever

sequester

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

sever

Set or keep apart.
- usage: "sever a relationship"
- synonyms: break up
Cut off from a whole.
- usage: "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
- synonyms: discerp, lop

(v.t.) To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt.
(v.t.) To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg.
(v.t.) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy.
(v.i.) To suffer disjunction; to be parted or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate.
(v.t.) To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body.
(v.i.) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Sever is a masculine given name