Sunder vs Sequester - What's the difference?
sunder | sequester |
To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
To , separate.
(UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
a separation into parts; a division or severance
* 1939 , , Additional Poems , VII, lines 2-4
To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
* Hooker
To separate in order to store.
To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
* Francis Bacon
(chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
(legal) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
* South
(transitive, US, politics, legal) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
To seize and hold enemy property.
To withdraw; to retire.
* Milton
To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
sequestration; separation
(legal) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.
(medicine) A sequestrum.
(Webster 1913)
As a preposition sunder
is without.As a verb sequester is
to separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.As a noun sequester is
sequestration; separation.sunder
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at sundry.Verb
(en verb)- {{quote-book
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- (Halliwell)
Quotations
* 1881 , Severed Selves, lines 8-9 *: '' Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — *: '' Such are we now.Derived terms
* asunder * sunderanceNoun
(en noun)- He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
- I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
- And went with half my life about my ways.
Anagrams
* ----sequester
English
Verb
(en verb)- The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
- when men most sequester themselves from action
- The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO2 emissions.
- I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.
- It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
- The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
- to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
Synonyms
* segregateNoun
(en noun)- (Bouvier)
