sequestration

Main Entry:
sequestration [see-kwes-trey-shuhn, si-kwes-]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seclusion
Synonyms: aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, blockade, concealment, desolation, detachment, hiding, isolation, privacy, privateness, quarantine, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, retirement, retreat, seclusiveness, separateness, separation, shelter, solitude, withdrawal
Main Entry: privacy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: solitude, secrecy
Synonyms: aloofness, clandestineness, concealment, confidentiality, isolation, one's space, penetralia, privateness, quiet, retirement, retreat, seclusion, separateness, separation, sequestration, solitude
Antonyms: publicity, publicness, sociableness
Main Entry: punishment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: penalty
Synonyms: abuse, amercement, beating, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, confiscation, correction, deprivation, disciplinary action, discipline, forfeit, forfeiture, gallows, hard work, infliction, just desserts, lumps, maltreatment, mortification, mulct, ostracism, pain, penance, proof, punitive measures, purgatory, reparation, retribution, rod, rough treatment, sanction, sequestration, short shrift, slave labor, suffering, torture, trial, unhappiness, victimization, what for
Antonyms: encouragement, exoneration, praise, protection, reward
Main Entry: quarantine
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: isolation
Synonyms: detention, lazaretto, seclusion, segregation, separation, sequestration
Main Entry: seclusion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: isolation
Synonyms: aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, blockade, concealment, desolation, detachment, hiding, privacy, privateness, quarantine, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, retirement, retreat, seclusiveness, separateness, separation, sequestration, shelter, solitude, withdrawal
Antonyms: open, public
Main Entry: reclusion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seclusion
Synonyms: aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, blockade, concealment, desolation, detachment, hiding, privacy, privateness, quarantine, reclusiveness, remoteness, retirement, retreat, seclusiveness, separateness, separation, sequestration, shelter, solitude, withdrawal
Main Entry: retirement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seclusion
Synonyms: aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, blockade, concealment, desolation, detachment, hiding, privacy, privateness, quarantine, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, retreat, seclusiveness, separateness, separation, sequestration, shelter, solitude, withdrawal
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Main Entry: privacy
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
abandoned, banished, by the world forgot, bye, cynical, delitescent, derelict, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, desolate, dissocial, domestic, estranged, forlorn, friendless, homeless, incommunicative, inconversable, inhospitable, isolated, kithless, left to shift for oneself, lonely, lonesome, lorn, out of the way, out of the world, outcast, private, retired, secluded, sequestered, single, snug, solitary, stay, the world forgetting, umbratile, unclubable, under a cloud, unfrequented, unfriended, unhabitable, uninhabited, unintroduced, uninvited, unsociable, unsocial, unvisited, unwelcome
Main Entry: punishment
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
baculine, castigatory, chastened, condemnatory, condemned, damnatory, exilic, inflictive, non, punished, punishing, punitive, punitory, self
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