verb
- Select something or someone for a specific purpose.
- usage: "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
- Set apart from others.
- usage: "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
- synonyms: sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, isolate
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