removal or separation; banishment or exile.

a withdrawal into seclusion; retirement.

Law .

the sequestering of property.

confiscation or seizure.

Chemistry . the combining of metallic ions with a suitable reagent into a stable, soluble complex in order to prevent the ions from combining with a substance with which they would otherwise have formed an insoluble precipitate, from causing interference in a particular reaction, or from acting as undesirable catalysts.

noun

insulation , segregation , separation , reclusion , retirement