sequestering in English

verb

1

isolate or hide away (someone or something).

Tiberius was sequestered on an island

synonyms: isolate oneself, hide away, shut oneself away, seclude oneself, cut oneself off, segregate oneself, closet oneself, cloister oneself, withdraw, retire

2

take legal possession of (assets) until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met.

the power of courts to sequester the assets of unions

verb

isolate oneself, hide away, shut oneself away, seclude oneself, cut oneself off, segregate oneself, closet oneself, cloister oneself, withdraw, retire
confiscate, seize, sequestrate, take, appropriate, expropriate, impound, commandeer
isolate, keep apart, set apart, sequestrate
seclude, sequestrate, withdraw
attach, confiscate, seize, impound

Use "sequestering" in a sentence

1. Sequestering CO2 by accelerated curing of concrete (McGill and others)

2. Sequestration and dispersion force of different kinds of sequestering a - gent are tested.

3. He spends his days climbing the greasy pole, gnawing at the foundations of society and Beadily confiscating and sequestering public goods.

4. Rain forests play an important role in maintaining biological diversity, sequestering and storing carbon, global climate regulation, disease control, and pollination.

5. Afforestation, reforestation and the integration of trees into other land uses can reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels by sequestering carbon in tree biomass

6. Brucite [Mg (OH)2] is a hydroxide mineral that is most often thought of as an ex situ option for sequestering CO 2 (Harrison et al., 2013)

7. Clathrates are a form of crystalline water ice that can trap gas molecules inside their structure, effectively sequestering it until the ice is destabilized by heat or force

8. Autophagy, or Autophagocytosis, is a process of sequestering organelles and long-lived proteins in a double-membrane vesicle inside the cell, where the contents are subsequently delivered to the

9. But it's probably hiding, because if you are out sequestering resources from your environment, that makes you yummy, and other things might want to eat you, or consume you.

10. The invention concerns a process for purifying α,ω-diiodoρerfluorinatcd compounds of formula 1-(CF2CF2Y)m-I comprising contacting an impure α,ω-diiodopcrfluorinated compound with a suitable sequestering agent, with formation of a reversible adduct and separating the α,ω- diiodoperfluorinated compound from the adduct itself.

11. In a preferred embodiment, the invention relates to a process of sequestering carbon dioxide. The process comprises the steps of: (a) reacting a metal silicate with a caustic alkali-metal hydroxide to produce a hydroxide of the metal formerly contained in the silicate; (b) reacting carbon dioxide with at least one of a caustic alkali-metal hydroxide and an alkali-metal silicate to produce at least one of an alkalimetal carbonate and an alkali-metal bicarbonate; and (c) reacting the metal hydroxide product of step (a) with at least one of the alkali-metal carbonate and the alkali-metal bicarbonate produced in step (b) to produce a carbonate of the metal formerly contained in the metal silicate of step (a).