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SEQUESTERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Kept separate and secluded
Example:
a sequestered jury
Classified under:
Similar:
segregated; unintegrated (separated or isolated from others or a main group)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Providing privacy or seclusion
Example:
a secluded romantic spot
Synonyms:
cloistered; reclusive; secluded; sequestered
Classified under:
Similar:
private (confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb sequester
Context examples:
What crime was this that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion, and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner? —what mystery, that broke out now in fire and now in blood, at the deadest hours of night?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
